ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,818, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Forecasting and mitigating concept drift using natural language processing" was invented by Seshu Tirupathi (Dublin), Amadou Ba (Navan, Ireland), Marco Luca Sbodio (Castaheany, Ireland), Yufang Hou (Dublin) and Venkata Sitaramagiridharganesh Ganapavarapu (Elmsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for automatically forecasting and mitigating concept drift in machine learning models using natural language processing. The embodiment may automatically detect features and variables considered by a target machine learning mode...