US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 1 for "Feature selection for machine learning models" (Virginia, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,078, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Feature selection for machine learning models" was invented by Ashwin Assysh Sharma (Vienna, Va.) and Gunther Havel (Portsmouth, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for facilitating segmentation of training data using measures of statistical dispersion (e.g., Gini impurities) of dataset features. The system determines, from a training dataset, a target feature and candidate features. The system determines, for the target feature in relation to each candidate feature, first Gini impurities. The system selects a fir...