ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,581, issued on April 14, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for out-of-distribution detection" was invented by Yihao Feng (Austin, Texas) and Caiming Xiong (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the current disclosure disclose methods and systems for detecting out-of-distribution (ODD) data. For example, a method for detecting ODD data includes obtaining, at a neural network composed of a plurality of layers, a set of training data generated according to a distribution. Further, the method comprises generating, via a processor, a feature map by combining mapping func...