ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,094, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Forecasting using fuzzy kernels in convolutional neural networks" was invented by Lev Makler (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Anat Parush Tzur (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for forecasting changes in quantities over time are disclosed. To generate a prediction for a future value of a quantity based on time series data of the quantity that may have irregular time intervals, a fuzzy kernel may be used in a convolutional neural network. The fuzzy kernel may be a...