ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,072, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Xero Ltd. (Te Aro, New Zealand).

"Methods and systems for training attribute prediction models" was invented by Delia Rusu (Te Aro, New Zealand), Quentin Gabriel Thurier (Te Aro, New Zealand), Soon-Ee Cheah (Te Aro, New Zealand) and Rebecca Dridan (Te Aro, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described embodiments relate to a method comprising: determining a training dataset of example documents, each associated with first and second hierarchical level category labels. The method comprises generating a predicted first hierarchical level category and a predicted second hierarchical level c...