ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,037, issued on May 13, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Graph-based feature engineering for machine learning models" was invented by Haoran Zhang (Shanghai), Pengshan Zhang (Shanghai), Junshi Guo (Shanghai), Changle Lian (Shanghai), Xiaojun Luan (Shanghai), Xia Zhang (Shanghai), Yu Zhang (Shanghai) and Jiaxin Fang (Shangahi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for assisting a user to identify and evaluate features for use in a machine learning model configured to perform a task. Based on graph data associated with a graph data structure, a user interface is provided on a device. Base...