ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,877, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Bias reduction in artificial intelligence by leveraging open source AI and closed source AI interactions" was invented by Manu Kurian (Dallas), Ana Maxim (Arlington, Va.), Vinesh Patel (London) and Michael Young (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial intelligence (AI) systems may manipulate search results about an entity to inject a predetermined bias into the search results. A bias reduction artificial intelligence (AI) system and method may perform the same automated search about the entity on open source and closed source AI system...