US Patent Issued to Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg on Sept. 15 for "Hardware accelerator for decision tree ensemble using rank-based threshold evaluation with feature-grouped memory" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,694, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany).

"Hardware accelerator for decision tree ensemble using rank-based threshold evaluation with feature-grouped memory" was invented by Jan Kollmitz (Freiburg, Germany), Yiannos Manoli (Freiburg, Germany) and Alexander Bleitner (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method for classification of a decision tree ensemble include saving of threshold values representative of decision trees in the decision tree ensemble into one group per feature to be classified, sorting of the threshold values of a group accordin...