ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,673, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Calculate fairness of machine learning model" was invented by Ravi Chandra Chamarthy (Hyderabad, India), Manish Anand Bhide (Hyderabad, India) and Prateek Goyal (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided in which the approach receives scored records that include a selected scored record comprising a first fairness group attribute, a first prediction, and a first confidence value corresponding to the first prediction. The approach perturbs the selected scored record to a second fairness group attribute in response ...