ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,613, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data augmentation using semantic transforms" was invented by Horst Cornelius Samulowitz (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Udayan Khurana (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Kavitha Srinivas (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Takaaki Tateishi (Tokyo), Ibrahim Abdelaziz (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Julian Timothy Dolby (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of data augmentation includes receiving, by a processor, a set of data including a plurality of variables, mapping each variable to one or more target concepts associated with a name of each...