US Patent Issued to Alteryx on May 26 for "Integrated feature engineering" (Colorado, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,594, issued on May 26, was assigned to Alteryx Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Integrated feature engineering" was invented by Sydney Marie Firmin (Westminster, Colo.), James Max Kanter (Boston) and Kalyan Kumar Veeramachaneni (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature engineering application receives a plurality of data sets from different data sources for training a model for making a prediction based on new data. The feature engineering application generates primitives based on the data sets. A primitive is to be applied to a variable in the data sets to synthesize a feature. The feature engineering application also receive...