ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,973, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Hierarchical data labeling for machine learning using semi-supervised multi-level labeling framework" was invented by Maziyar Baran Pouyan (Emeryville, Calif.), Mary A. Ohara (Newark, Del.), Manish Khati (Hyderabad, India), Srikant Vilas Khole (Pimpri Chinchwad, India), Hrishikesh Satbhai (Pune, India), Vivek Kumar Khetan (San Francisco) and Elena Stoyanova Eneva (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are directed to receiving a plurality of data samples comprising a first set of data samples associated with respective labels...