ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,478, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Implicit curriculum learning" was invented by Roi Spoliansky (Ramat Yishay, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for facilitating implicit curriculum learning are provided. These allow for improved machine learning systems that can automatically execute curriculum learning without drawbacks such as pre-sorting data into different epochs which may have varying degrees of difficulty (e.g. easiest first, then harder epochs). Applicant's techniques can be executed more efficiently by automatically iterating over a data set, which need not be ...