ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,183, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Modeling disjoint manifolds" was invented by Jesse Cole Cresswell (Toronto), Brendan Leigh Ross (Toronto), Anthony Lawrence Caterini (Toronto), Gabriel Loaiza Ganem (Toronto) and Bradley Craig Anderson Brown (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer model is trained to account for data samples in a high-dimensional space as lying on different manifolds, rather than a single manifold to represent the data set, accounting for the data set as a whole as a union of manifolds. Different data samples that may be expected to belong to the same un...