ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,776, issued on July 1, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Training data augmentation for machine learning" was invented by Itay Margolin (Pardesiya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to training a machine learning model to understand one or more rules without explicitly executing the rule. In some embodiments, a computer system generates synthetic samples for a trained machine learning model usable to make a classification decision, where the synthetic samples are generated from a rule and a set of existing samples. In some embodiments, the set of existing samples are selected based ...