ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,419, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Game-theoretic invariant rationalization of machine-learning results" was invented by Shiyu Chang (Elmsford, N.Y.), Yang Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Mo Yu (White Plains, N.Y.) and Tommi S. Jaakkola (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve actual labels that are produced by a black box computer classifier system from inputs, identify, using an environment-aware predictor and an environment-agnostic predictor, a subset of the inputs. The subset of the inputs has a s...