ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,912, issued on April 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data mining using group classifiers" was invented by Weiheng Chai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anurag Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yifang Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, data mining using group classifiers for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications is described. For instance, systems and methods may train and use a classifier that is configured to determine whether data samples (e.g., images) represent objects associated with a group in various training and/or mining iterations. For instance, after eac...