US Patent Issued to Optum Services (Ireland) on June 23 for "Predictive machine learning feature selection" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,804, issued on June 23, was assigned to Optum Services (Ireland) Ltd. (Dublin).

"Predictive machine learning feature selection" was invented by Karim M Mahmoud Mohamed Moustafa (Dublin), Eugene Edward Farrell (Galway, Ireland), Lisa E. Walsh (Dublin), Harutyun Shahumyan (Dublin), Smitashree Choudhury (Dublin) and Arjit Agrawal (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide feature engineering techniques for improving machine learning model development, performance, and maintenance. The feature engineering techniques include generating a model description vector from a textual model descri...