US Patent Issued to Fairness-as-a-Service on March 11 for "Systems and methods for intelligent generation and assessment of candidate less discriminatory alternative machine learning models" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,858, issued on March 11, was assigned to Fairness-as-a-Service Inc. (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for intelligent generation and assessment of candidate less discriminatory alternative machine learning models" was invented by John Wickens-Lamb Merrill (Seattle), Kareem Saleh (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Mark Eberstein (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method includes obtaining an incumbent model and a candidate model, generating a plurality of synthetic model input datasets, computing, for each synthetic model input dataset, a model performance efficacy metric and a model fairness e...