ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,589, issued on April 14, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Causal inference via neuroevolutionary selection" was invented by Michael Craig Burkhart (Plainfield, Ind.) and Gabriel Ruiz (Jurupa Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology is directed towards receiving training data regarding a set of observations. Each observation includes a feature set, a treatment, and an outcome. A first generation of machine learning models is trained, via the training data, to predict an outcome for a feature set of a given observation. A new generation of models is generated by selecting a subset of models from the ...