US Patent Issued to Accenture Global Solutions on March 18 for "Generation of counterfactual explanations using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,388, issued on March 18, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Generation of counterfactual explanations using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques" was invented by Rory McGrath (Kildare Town, Ireland), Luca Costabello (Newbridge, Ireland) and Nicholas McCarthy (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system may determine, based on a qualification model, a prediction output of an analysis of user information. The system may determine, based on a generator model, a plurality of counterfactual explanations associated with the prediction output and the user information. T...