US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Efficient random sampling from dynamically changing sample pool" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,457, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Efficient random sampling from dynamically changing sample pool" was invented by Can Goksen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cost-efficient repeated random sampling from a dynamically-changing sampling pool includes defining an array of elements to be selectively masked and unmasked throughout repeated random sampling operations from a first sampling pool. The first sampling pool includes unmasked elements of the array and excludes masked elements of the array. The method further includes identifying an exclusion element ...