ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,878, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Imputing machine learning training data" was invented by A Peng Zhang (Xian, China), Xiao Ming Ma (Xi'an, China), Lei Gao (Xian, China), Jin Wang (Xi'an, China) and Kai Li (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes determining a correlation list of missing value predictors. The method also includes generating a cluster model having multiple clusters. The cluster model is based on a target value and predictor values. The method further includes determining an imputed value for a mi...