ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,981, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Classifier processing using multiple binary classifier stages" was invented by Igor Henrique Nicacio Braga (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment generates a training batch of data points from training data for a plurality of classes and builds a multi-class classifier having a series of binary classifiers arranged in a first order. Each of the binary classifiers is associated with a respective class. The embodiment trains the multi-class classifier with the binary classifiers arranged in a first order and, at each binary clas...