ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,440, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating an error policy for a machine learning engine" was invented by Samuel Solomon Ackerman (Haifa, Israel), Orna Raz (Haifa, Israel), Eitan Daniel Farchi (Pardes Hana-Karku, Israel) and Marcel Zalmanovici (Kiriat Motzkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer hardware system includes a slice generator and a policy generator and performs the following. The slice generator slices a first dataset including true values and predicted values of a class variable into a plurality of slices each defining a plurality of observations...