US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "Generating rule lists from tree ensemble models" (California, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,817, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating rule lists from tree ensemble models" was invented by Gopiram Roshan Lal (Madison, Wis.), Varun Mithal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiaotong Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for extracting rule lists from tree ensembles are provided. A system extracts first stage candidate rules from individual trees. The system identifies the first stage candidate rules that satisfy a precision threshold and places those rules in a solution set. Subsequently, a determination is made whether a further stage i...