US Patent Issued to THE DOW CHEMICAL on May 13 for "Hybrid machine learning model for code classification" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,586, issued on May 13, was assigned to THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY (Midland, Mich.).

"Hybrid machine learning model for code classification" was invented by Chun Wang (Midland, Mich.), John Martin Wassick (Midland, Mich.), Vicki Rothhaar (Midland, Mich.), Kalyanmoy Deb (East Lansing, Mich.), Yashesh Deepakkumer Dhebar (East Lansing, Mich.) and Erik David Goodman (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment involves a hybrid machine learning classifier that uses a random forest of decision tree classifiers to predict a tariff code prefix, and uses a plurality of expert trees to predict a tariff code suffix from prope...