US Patent Issued to Optum Services (Ireland) on Oct. 21 for "Categorical input machine learning models" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,508, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Optum Services (Ireland) Ltd. (Dublin).

"Categorical input machine learning models" was invented by Lorcan B. Mac Manus (Kildare, Ireland), Peter Cogan (Dublin) and Conor Breen (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a need for more effective and efficient predictive data analysis based at least in part on categorical input data. This need can be addressed by, for example, solutions for performing predictive data analysis that utilize at least one of categorical level merging, mutual-information-based feature filtering, feature-correlation-based feature filtering to generate training da...