ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,827, issued on June 3, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for transfer learning between modified tasks" was invented by Danny Stoll (Rheinfelden, Germany), Diane Wagner (Freiburg, Germany), Frank Hutter (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), Joerg Franke (Freiburg, Germany) and Simon Selg (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the transfer learning of hyperparameters of a machine learning algorithm. The method includes providing a current search space and a previous search space. A reduced search space is then created and candidate configurations are drawn repeatedly at random ...