ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,290, issued on July 14, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Method, system, and computer program product for improving machine learning models" was invented by Mert Kosan (Austin, Texas), Linyun He (Cedar Park, Texas), Shubham Agrawal (Round Rock, Texas), Yuhang Wu (Jersey City, N.J.), Hongyi Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chiranjeet Chetia (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for improving machine learning models which include receiving a data set including data records; inputting the data set to a pre-trained first machine ...