US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on March 4 for "Method, system, and computer program product for synthetic oversampling for boosting supervised anomaly detection" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,939, issued on March 4, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Method, system, and computer program product for synthetic oversampling for boosting supervised anomaly detection" was invented by Kwei-Herng Lai (Houston), Lan Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Huiyuan Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Mangesh Bendre (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mahashweta Das (Campbell, Calif.) and Hao Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products may formulate an iterative data mix up problem into a Markov decision process (MDP) with a tailored reward signal to guide a learning process. T...