ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,854, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Robust model performance across disparate sub-groups within a same group" was invented by Joshua Patrick Gardner (Seattle) and Wei Huang (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing the difference in performance of a model across groups and sub-groups within the same group of users with similar characteristics for providing digital components. Methods can include identifying, a loss function that generates a loss representing a measure of perf...