ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,951, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Adapting pre-trained machine learning models using target data sets" was invented by Luca Zancato (Saonara, Italy), Alessandro Achille (Arcadia, Calif.), Matthew Gianni Trager (New York), Pramuditha Perera (Secausus, N.J.) and Stefano Soatto (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pre-trained machine learning models may be adapted using target data sets. A target data set may be received and used to adapt the pre-trained machine learning model. Auxiliary items may be retrieved from an auxiliary data set based on a target item from the target data set....