ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,686, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for outlier detection using unsupervised machine learning models trained on balanced data" was invented by Hassan Shallal (Plano, Texas) and Rajesh Kanna Durairaj (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for outlier detection. The system may apply a single-tier including a minority expert model only or a two-tier machine learning model, including a majority expert model and a minority expert model. The system may generate the minority expert model by training an unsupervised machine learnin...