ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,604, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CVENT INC. (Tysons Corner, Va.).

"System and method for iterative data clustering using machine learning" was invented by Lashkar Kashif (Tysons Corner, Va.) and Casey Hartnett (Tysons Corner, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media which train a machine learning algorithm using a training set of Requests for Proposals (RFPs), then cluster a second set of RFPs using the trained machine learning algorithm. Distinct clusters are then compared to historical data, and an outlier is identified. An alert regarding that outlier is then tr...