US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Path-sufficient explanations for model understanding" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,004, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Path-sufficient explanations for model understanding" was invented by Ronny Luss (New York) and Amit Dhurandhar (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach to generate a path for minimally sufficient explanations for improving model understanding. Data is received from a user. The data is iteratively processed to generate minimally sufficient explanations based on the input data and the input of a subsequent explanation determination is constrained to the output of a prior explanation determination."

The patent was f...