ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,552, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine-learning-based OKR generation" was invented by Linsey Lamba (Seattle), Hongmei Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Aarushi Arora (Lucknow, India), Balaji Seetharaman (Chennai, India), Aakanksha Prithwi Raj (Bangalore, India), Gokul Prasanth P (Tiruppur, India), Jaiprakash Sekar (Chennai, India), Prasanna Venkatesan (Chennai, India) and Rajesh K (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a machine learning model using positive and negative synthetic data is implemented via a computing system including a processor. The m...