ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,517, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"User segmentation using predictive model interpretation" was invented by Piyush Gupta (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Nikaash Puri (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining user segments created by a predictive model based on user behavioral data. A data analysis application executing on a computing device receives training data and a user input defining an outcome of interest. The data analysis application trains a predictive model with the training data and the outcome of interest. The data analysis applicatio...