ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,847, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for mitigating bias in a machine learning-based decisioning model" was invented by Luiz Henrique Outi Kauffmann (Apex, N.C.) and Aline Riquetti Campos Emidio (Brasilia, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-program product includes obtaining a decisioning dataset comprising a plurality of favorable decisioning records and at least one unfavorable decisioning record; detecting, via a machine learning algorithm, a favorable decisioning record of the plurality of favorable decisioning rec...