ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,253, issued on July 14, was assigned to Jingdong City (Nanjing) Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and device for constructing decision tree" was invented by Yang Liu (Jiangsu, China), Junbo Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Mingxin Chen (Jiangsu, China), Yingting Liu (Jiangsu, China) and Yu Zheng (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a method and a device for constructing decision trees. A particular embodiment of the method comprises: sending, to at least one client, a request for acquiring statistical information of attribute information of a target category; rec...