ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,362, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc..

"Hierarchical neural network based implementation for predicting out of stock products" was invented by Akash Singh (Gurgaon, India) and Rajdeep Dua (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hierarchical neural network for predicting out of stock products comprises an input layer that receives data from data sources that store disparate datasets having different levels of attribute detail pertaining to products for sale in stores of a retailer. A first level of neural networks processes the data from the data sources into respective learned intermediate vector representa...