US Patent Issued to Alteryx on May 26 for "System and method of operationalizing automated feature engineering" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,634, issued on May 26, was assigned to Alteryx Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method of operationalizing automated feature engineering" was invented by 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 tool automatically generates a group of features for generating a machine learning model. The feature engineering tool selects primitives for a dataset and synthesizes a plurality of features based on the selective primitives and the dataset. The feature engineering tool iteratively applies the plurality of features to a different portion of the dataset t...