ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,789, issued on April 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Interpretable model changes" was invented by Elizabeth Daly (Dublin), Rahul Nair (Dublin), Oznur Alkan (Dublin), Massimiliano Mattetti (Dublin), Dennis Wei (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yunfeng Zhang (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for interpreting output of a machine learning model, a processor receives a first interpretable rule set. A processor may also receive a second interpretable rule set generated from a dataset and model-predicted labels classifying the dataset. A processor may also generate a difference metri...