US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for weight of evidence based feature engineering and machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,132, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for weight of evidence based feature engineering and machine learning" was invented by Tzu-Yen Wang (San Mateo, Calif.), Jingru Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Hui-Min Chen (Pleasanton, Calif.) and James ZhiPing Tang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating and using trained logit models using weight-of-evidence (WOE) based processes are disclosed. A training data set including sets of variables and a classification of each set in the sets of variables is received. The classification includes one o...