ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,665, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Online machine learning-based model for decision recommendation" was invented by Bu Yu Gao (Yinchuan, China), Prerna Agarwal (New Delhi), Sampath Dechu (Bangalore, India) and Ya Bin Dang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include selecting an activity as a selected activity. A method includes designating a subset of the set of activities as classes, collecting a log of inputs and outputs of each encountered activity as a data point each time the process is implemented, and extracting features from each data p...