ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,173, issued on May 13, was assigned to O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for analyzing algorithms or other processes" was invented by Catherine O'Neil (Cambridge, Mass.), Elizabeth O'Neil (Cambridge, Mass.), Meredith Broussard (New York), Jacob Appel (Los Angeles), Thomas Adams (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Isaac Robinson (Milton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for processing data may comprise receiving, from a user, a first data set including at least one item of personally identifiable information ("PII") for a plurality of individuals, wherein the first ...