ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,612, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Mitigating the influence of biased training instances without refitting" was invented by Prasanna Sattigeri (Acton, Mass.), Soumya Ghosh (Boston), Inkit Padhi (White Plains, N.Y.), Pierre L. Dognin (White Plains, N.Y.) and Kush Raj Varshney (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more systems, devices, computer program products and/or computer implemented methods of use provided herein relate to a process of mitigating biased training instances associated with a machine learning model without additional refitting of the machi...