US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on May 13 for "Method of controlling for undesired factors in machine learning models" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,748, issued on May 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Method of controlling for undesired factors in machine learning models" was invented by Jeffrey S. Myers (Normal, Ill.), Kenneth J. Sanchez (San Francisco) and Michael L. Bernico (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training and using a machine learning model that controls for consideration of undesired factors which might otherwise be considered by the trained model during its subsequent analyses of new data. For example, the model may be a neural network trained on a set of training images to evaluate an ...