US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 31 for "Ethical confidence fabrics: measuring ethical algorithm development" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,827, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Ethical confidence fabrics: measuring ethical algorithm development" was invented by Nicole Reineke (Northborough, Mass.) and Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes formulating a hypothesis for development of computing model, annotating the hypothesis with ethics metadata, storing the hypothesis and the ethics metadata, in association with each other, in a ledger, performing 'n' phases of a development lifecycle for the computing model, annotating each of the 'n' phases with ethics metadata specif...