ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,689, issued on July 7, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-domain feature enhancement for transfer learning (FTL)" was invented by Zhida Shen (San Jose, Calif.), Suraj Jayakumar (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Kumar Bansal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chao Cheng (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for configuring and training a machine learning model using transfer learning techniques that can transfer knowledge among multiple domains that do not share an identical feature set. Instead of using any feature set associated with a domain, a feature arrangement that combines all of the...