ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,576, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Data blaming" was invented by William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.), Seokkyung Chung (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Lin Xu (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identification of an item that was misclassified by a classification model constructed in accordance with a machine learning technique is received. One example of such a machine learning technique is a random forest. A subset of training data, previously used to construct the model, and that is associated with the item is identified. At least a portion of the identi...