ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,861, issued on March 3, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Identifying and correcting vulnerabilities in machine learning models" was invented by Changwei Liu (Fairfax, Va.), Louis Divalentin (Arlington, Va.), Neil Hayden Liberman (Arlington, Va.), Amin Hassanzadeh (Arlington, Va.), Benjamin Glen McCarty (Washington) and Malek Ben Salem (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a machine learning model and training data utilized to train the machine learning model, and may perform a data veracity assessment of the training data to identify and remove poisoned data from the training...