ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,674, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"Techniques for generating synthetic data" was invented by Robert Winston Blanchard (San Diego), Ruiwen Zhang (Cary, N.C.), William Nadolski (Marysville, Ohio) and Vrushali Sawant (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include generating synthetic data by generating a first set of hyperparameters for a first trained machine learning model and a second set of hyperparameters for a second trained machine learning model, generating a plurality of synthetic data vectors using the first and second trained machine learning models, computing an ...