ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,493, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System and methods for evaluating the sensitivity and fairness bounds of tree-based models" was invented by Manish Anand Bhide (Hyderabad, India), Ravi Chandra Chamarthy (Hyderabad, India), Trent A. Gray-Donald (Ottawa) and Remus Lazar (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more systems, devices, computer program products and/or computer-implemented methods of use provided herein relate to a process to facilitate abnormal document self-discovery. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components...