US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 3 for "One-hot encoder using lazy evaluation of relational statements" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,515, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"One-hot encoder using lazy evaluation of relational statements" was invented by Felix Schmidt (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland), Matteo Casserini (Zurich), Milos Vasic (Zurich) and Marija Nikolic (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and one or more non-transitory storage media are provided to train and implement a one-hot encoder. During a training phase, computation of an encoder state is performed by executing a set of relational statements to extract unique categories in a first training data set, associate each unique category with a...