ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,423, issued on July 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System and method for ensuring that the results of machine learning models can be audited" was invented by Edward R. Wetherbee (Omaha, Neb.), Kenneth P. Baclawski (Waltham, Mass.), Guang C. Wang (San Diego), Kenny C. Gross (Escondido, Calif.), Anna Morav (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Dieter Gawlick (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.) and Richard Paul Sonderegger (Dorchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with auditing the results of a machine learning model are described...