ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,098, issued on May 12, was assigned to Genesee Valley Innovations LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for creating an ensemble of neural network-based classifiers that optimizes a diversity metric" was invented by Alejandro E. Brito (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shantanu Rane (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a system which facilitates construction of an ensemble of neural network-based classifiers that optimize a diversity metric. During operation, the system defines a diversity metric based on pairwise angles between decision boundaries of three or more affine classifiers. The system i...