US Patent Issued to PayPal on March 17 for "Feature selection using feedback-assisted optimization models" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,477, issued on March 17, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Feature selection using feedback-assisted optimization models" was invented by Nitin S. Sharma (San Jose, Calif.) and Niraj Kumar (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to feature selection based on feedback-assisted optimization models. In various embodiments, for example, the disclosed techniques include accessing a training dataset that includes a plurality of data samples that include data values for a plurality of features, and a set of labels corresponding to the plurality of data samples. In some embod...