ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,395, issued on July 14, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"System and method for detecting bias and performing debiasing" was invented by Asit Sangode (Livingston, N.J.) and Tejaswi Sutrala (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method detect bias and to perform debiasing of an item including data, ideas, and processes, by determining a fairness ratio, from model scores from a recommendation model, sorting the model scores into an ordered list of scores, determining that a sorted score is within a range of predetermined upper and lower thresholds, adjusting the sorted score, recomputing the...