US Patent Issued to SAS Institute on July 8 for "Distributed nonlinear support vector machines" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,501, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAS Institute Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Distributed nonlinear support vector machines" was invented by Riadh Omheni (Raleigh, N.C.) and Joshua David Griffin (Harrisburg, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include dividing training data into training data blocks, determining a support vector subset, distributing the training data blocks and the support vector subset to worker machines, receiving a first set of sub-results from worker machines, combining the first set of sub-results, solving a linear system, distributing a first set of variables to worker machines, receiving a second...