US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 1 for "Methods and systems for identifying and reducing gender bias amplification" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,233, issued on July 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods and systems for identifying and reducing gender bias amplification" was invented by Dorothy Zhao (Princeton, N.J.), Jerone Andrews (Tokyo) and Alice Xiang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-attribute bias amplification metric illustrates the need to consider multiple attributes when measuring bias amplification. For datasets that are perfectly balanced with respect to single attributes, bias amplification can still occur with respect to multi-attributes, regardless of whether raw or absolute differences are used. The metric can be used to show that ...