ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,747, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Statistical k-means clustering" was invented by Rahul M Rao (Bangalore, India), Naiju Karim Abdul (Babusapalaya, India), Anay K Desai (Bengaluru, India) and Suriya T Skariah (Kochi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer-implemented method for improving a k-means clustering algorithm, a processor modifies a first data point of a data set to include a first distribution boundary. A processor calculates a first effective distance between the first distribution boundary and a first centroid of a cluster. A processor assigns the fir...