ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,564, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Kayak Software Corp. (Stamford, Conn.).
"Combined neural network" was invented by Jacob Vincent Bouvrie (Arlington, Mass.) and Tianbai Cui (Seabrook, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating a combined neural network. One of the methods includes creating a combined neural network by combining a) a first neural network that includes a first plurality of weights and was trained to predict single output values that have a type with b) a second neural network that includes a second plurality of w...