US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 27 for "Feature segmentation-based ensemble learning for classification and regression" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,475, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Feature segmentation-based ensemble learning for classification and regression" was invented by Lei Tian (Xi'an, China), Han Zhang (Xi'an, China), Yi Shao (Xi'an, China), Dong Hai Yu (Xi'an, China), Chun Lei Xu (Xi'an, China) and Xiao Ling Yang (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Constructing a feature segment-based ensemble can include generating a data structure for each element of an initial set of training data. Multiple strongly correlated features of the elements can be identified as well as weakly correlated features. For ea...