US Patent Issued to SAP on Nov. 3 for "Data encoding using images and machine learning models" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,426, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Data encoding using images and machine learning models" was invented by Joerg Koenning (Munich), Suat Tabanli (Munich) and Hueseyin Dagaydin (Eschelbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a plurality of first data values; creating a first image comprising first pixels, wherein the number of first pixels is equal to the number of first data values and wherein each first data value is assigned to a respective first pixel; providing the first image as input to an image-classification machine learning model to obtain a first numerical out...