ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,299, issued on March 25, was assigned to UL LLC (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Using machine learning to virtualize product tests" was invented by Mahmood Tabaddor (Rochester, Mich.), Anthony Tassone (Melville, N.Y.), Mario Xerri (Melville, N.Y.), Priyansu Panda (Karnataka, India) and Pravinray D. Gandhi (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for using machine learning models to predict an outcome of a product test are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may generate a machine learning model using training data indicating a set of results of a set of products tested according to a...