ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,683, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Decision-making under selective labels" was invented by Dennis Wei (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of decision-making using selective labels, includes receiving a conditional success probability value of a feature associated with an entity. A confidence value of the received success probability value is received. A parameter value that is a trade-off between a short-term learning and a long-term utility is selected. A decision is rendered to accept or reject the feature associated with the e...