ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,907, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated model lineage inference" was invented by Rajmohan Chandrahasan (Tamilnadu, India), Kriti Rajput (Hyderabad, India), Nitin Gupta (Saharanpur, India), Himanshu Gupta (Vasant Kunj, India), Sameep Mehta (Bangalore, India), Emma Rose Tucker (Austin, Texas) and Manish Anand Bhide (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for automated model lineage inference. A computer system identifies training datasets which is used to train a machine learning model. ...