ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,553, issued on March 17, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Reusable data science model architectures for retail merchandising" was invented by Subramanian Iyer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Abhijith Neerkaje (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model development and maintenance architecture is provided, alongside a generalized model architecture for creation and execution that improves accessibility, reusability, and uniformity across a large organization, such as a large retail organization. In particular, the model architecture allows for creation, maintenance, and use of highly granular and top-level mode...