ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,298, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating graphical explanations of machine learning predictions" was invented by Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia), Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India), Luke Peter Macura (Lucas, Australia) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Query data associated with a query is detected, where the query data includes an active feature and a passive attribute used in a machine learning model, and where the machine learning model is trained to output a predicted result based at least in part on the active feature. Using a firs...