ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,468, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Computational naturally-occurring-action interpreter for machine learning" was invented by Simon J. L. Billinge (New York) and Yevgeny Rakita Shlafstein (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, device, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving action data representative of a sequence of actions resulting in an outcome, the sequence of actions and the resulting outcome defining an observable process, transforming the action data into a normalized representation rec...