ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,002, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Rule generation for machine-learning model discriminatory regions" was invented by Diptikalyan Saha (Bangalore, India), Swagatam Haldar (Kolkata, India) and Swastik Haldar (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, including: providing, from the central server to a machine-learning model, a training set of samples having known values for at least one target protected attribute, wherein the training set includes a first set of samples having a first value for the at least one target protected attribute a...