ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,543, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hipmunk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Learning machine training based on plan types" was invented by Bharat Sri Vardhan Vemulapalli (San Francisco), Eric Etu (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Marguerite Ellis (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for training a learning machine accesses a training database of reference metadata that describes reference plans that include reference first-type plans and reference second-type plans. Such plans may be travel plans or other plans. The system trains the learning machine to distinguish candidate first-type plans from candidate second-type plans. Th...