ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,905, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. (Boston).

"Training gradient boosted decision trees with progressive maximum depth for parsimony and interpretability" was invented by Brian Ironside (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a generalized linear model structure definition by generating a gradient boosted tree model and separating each decision tree into a plurality of indicator variables upon which a dependent variable of the generalized linear model depends."

The patent was filed on April 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/136,035.

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