ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,948, issued on May 13, was assigned to SOFTWARE GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Systems and/or methods for reinforced data cleaning and learning in machine learning inclusive computing environments" was invented by Mohamed Osman Mohamed Abdelaal (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcement learning based approach is used for data cleaning operations that are used in data preparation operations where machine learning (ML) technology is implemented. Features are extracted from a dirty dataset. A batch is sampled from the dirty dataset. A set of one or more repair tools is selected from available repair tools, provided...