ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,400, issued on July 22, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for compact tree representation for machine learning" was invented by Raoul Christopher Johnson (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Omri Moshe Lahav (Carmiel, Israel), Michael Dymshits (Holit, Israel) and David Tolpin (Ashdod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for generating compact tree representations applicable to machine learning. In one embodiment, a system is introduced that can retrieve a decision tree structure to generate a compact tree representation model. The com...