ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,646, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Fair Isaac Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Blockchain-based model governance and auditable monitoring of machine learning models" was invented by Scott Michael Zoldi (San Diego) and Shafi Ur Rahman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining, by a trained machine learning model, a score based at least on one or more latent features. The method also includes monitoring the determining of the score by the trained machine learning model. The monitoring includes determining one or more production statistics associated with the one or more latent features, derived variables and input...