US Patent Issued to EQUIFAX on April 7 for "Bias detection and reduction in machine-learning techniques" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,957, issued on April 7, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Bias detection and reduction in machine-learning techniques" was invented by Mufeng Zou (Melbourne, Australia), Swathi Veeravelly (Melbourne, Australia) and Marcus Bruhn (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a computing system can improve a machine learning model for risk assessment by removing or reducing bias in the machine learning model. The training process for the machine learning model can include training the machine learning model using training samples, obtaining data for a protected attribute, and calculating a bias metric usin...