US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Expert system enrichment through rule refinement" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,027, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Expert system enrichment through rule refinement" was invented by Xue Ying Zhang (Xian, China), Jing Xu (Xian, China), Si Er Han (Xian, China), Xiao Ming Ma (Xian, China) and Ji Hui Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, computer program product, and method are presented for enriching existing legacy expert systems through refinement of existing rules therein. The method includes identifying a legacy expert system to be enriched, relevant training data, existing rules embedded within the legacy expert system, and, for each e...