ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,432, issued on March 25, was assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (New York).

"Pruning for content selection" was invented by Junwei Pan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tian Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Aaron Eliasib Flores (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. A machine learning model may be trained using a plurality of sets of information. One or more pruning operations may be performed in association with the training to generate a machine learning model with sparse vector representations associated with features of the plurality of sets of information. A request for...