ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,233, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for training a machine learning model" was invented by Amir Afrasiabi (Fircrest, Wash.), Sina Rafati (Cedar Park, Texas) and Matthew David Johnson (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is configured to collect input data related to at least a portion of an object or an environment from the input sensor, execute a feature extractor to extract features for data elements of the input data, execute a clustering model configured to cluster the data elements of the input data into feature clusters based on similarities of...