US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 20 for "Interpretability of decision making methods" (British, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,038, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Interpretability of decision making methods" was invented by Lan Ngoc Hoang (Timperley, Great Britain) and Alexander Zadorojniy (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of increasing interpretability of decision making methods include a network module providing raw data from an environment to a machine learning (ML) module. In response to the raw data being delivered to the ML module, the ML module generates a trained classifier using the raw data. A pruning module then prunes a plurality of dominant variables, in t...