US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Nov. 25 for "Automatic generation of attribute sets for counterfactual explanations" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,913, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Automatic generation of attribute sets for counterfactual explanations" was invented by Brian Barr (McLean, Va.) and Christopher Bruss (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for generating updated sets of attributes that would turn a negative decision of an automated system into a positive decision. A received set of attributes associated with a negative decision of an automated system may be used to generate a latent representation of that set of attributes. A machine learning model may then be used to outpu...