US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 20 for "Labeling data using automated weak supervision" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,049, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (N.Y.).

"Labeling data using automated weak supervision" was invented by Shaikh Shahriar Quader (Scarborough, Canada), Jean-Francois Puget (Saint Raphael, France) and Mona Nashaat Ali Elmowafy (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, data comprising a labeled dataset and an unlabeled dataset; generating, by the computing device, a set of heuristics using the labeled dataset; generating, by the computing device, a vector of initial labels by labeling each point in the unlabeled...