ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,080, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Simultaneous data sampling and feature selection via weak learners" was invented by Moein Owhadi Kareshk (Burnaby, Canada), Ali Seyfi (Vancouver, Canada), Hesam Fathi Moghadam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sungpack Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hassan Chafi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "From many features and many multidimensional points, a computer generates exploratory training configurations. Each point contains a value for each of the features. Each exploratory training configuration identifies a random subset of the features a...