US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Sept. 2 for "Leveraging clustering models to reduce bias" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,273, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Leveraging clustering models to reduce bias" was invented by William Victor (Arlington, Va.), Steven Silverman (Arlington, Va.), Robert Albright (Washington) and S. Jordan Berman (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods that use test and control datasets to evaluate effectiveness of an event. An analytic server may retrieve a set of nodes comprising a subset of nodes corresponding to the test customers and a subset of nodes corresponding to the control customers. The analytic server may use a clustering ...