US Patent Issued to International Business Machines, The Broad Institute on Feb. 24 for "Interactive subgroup discovery" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,275, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Interactive subgroup discovery" was invented by Bum Chul Kwon (Cambridge, Mass.), Uri Kartoun (Cambridge, Mass.), Shaan Syed Khurshid (Cambridge, Mass.), Steven Alan Lubitz (Newton, Mass.) and Kenney Ng (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Obtain covariates and an outcome data for a population. Partition the population into a plurality of subgroups. Produce outcomes predictions by applying a machine learning model to the covariate data for the population. Establish performance meas...