ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,182, issued on April 14, was assigned to Biodesix Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Interpretation of machine learning classifications in clinical diagnostics using shapley values and uses thereof" was invented by Heinrich Roder (Steamboat Springs, Colo.), Joanna Roder (Steamboat Springs, Colo.), Laura Maguire (Boulder, Colo.), Robert W. Georgantas III (Broomfield, Colo.), Thomas Campbell (Thronton, Colo.) and Lelia Net (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shapley values (SVs) have become an important tool to further the goal of explainability of machine learning (ML) models. However, the computational load of exact SV calculatio...