ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,283, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Multi-layered machine learning model and use thereof" was invented by Sultan Saadaldean Alsharif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Nada Essa Al-Noaimi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Nora A. Algarawi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a prediction engine for aiding decision support. In some examples, the prediction engine can be used in aiding cyber security applications. The prediction engine can include multiple prediction layers that each include a number of machine learning models that contribute to an overall pre...