US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 1 for "Modelling causation in machine learning" (British, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,034, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Modelling causation in machine learning" was invented by Chao Ma (Cambridge, Great Britain), Cheng Zhang (Cambridge, Great Britain), Matthew Ashman (Cambridge, Great Britain), Marife Defante (Woodinville, Wash.), Karen Fassio (Bremerton, Wash.), Joel Jennings (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Agrin Aram Hilmkil (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: sampling a first causal graph from a first graph distribution modelling causation between variables in a feature vector, and sampling a second causal graph from a second grap...