ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,636, issued on May 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Integrated machine learning prediction and optimization for decision-making" was invented by Dzung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Long Vu (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.) and Dharmashankar Subramanian (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes training, by one or more processing devices, a plurality of machine learning predictive models, thereby generating a plurality of trained machine learning predictive models. The method further includes generating, by the one or more processing devices, a so...