ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,157, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AMPERITY INC. (Seattle).

"Generative-discriminative ensemble method for predicting lifetime value" was invented by Nicholas Resnick (New York), Joseph Christianson (Seattle), Joyce Gordon (Seattle), Andrew Lim (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Yan Yan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The example embodiments are directed toward predicting the lifetime value of a user using an ensemble model. In an embodiment, a system is disclosed, including a generative model for generating a first prediction representing a first lifetime value of a user during a forecasting period and a discriminative model configured...