US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 30 for "Progress estimation of iterative hierarchical clustering algorithms" (Australian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,234, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Progress estimation of iterative hierarchical clustering algorithms" was invented by Holly Wright (Studio Village, Australia), Jared Ryan Hayward (Southport, Australia), Wayne Francis Tackabury (West Tisbury, Mass.), Melanie Hanson (Ashmore, Australia) and Yair Allouche (Dvira, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes initiating training of an hierarchical clustering algorithm using training data. The method further includes determining a first factor, the first factor being a number of analyzed nodes compared to a n...