US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 18 for "Explanation of machine-learned models using image translation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,016, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Explanation of machine-learned models using image translation" was invented by Arunachalam Narayanaswamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Subhashini Venugopalan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Avinash Vaidyanathan Varadarajan (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying visual features that influence a predictive model are provided. The technology employs an image translation function to introduce a visual feature into an image to create a modified image that can be fed to a predictive model. When the predictive model generates a dif...