ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,561, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Mapping user vectors between embeddings for a machine learning model for authorizing access to resource" was invented by Yan Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Haoyu Zhang (Foster City, Calif.), Wei Zhang (Foster City, Calif.) and Hao Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining an access score is disclosed. The method includes receiving an access request to access a resource by a user device. Next, a user embedding is retrieved from an embedding table, the user embedding associated with a user identif...