US Patent Issued to Optum on Sept. 22 for "Model understandability" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,621, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Model understandability" was invented by Joao Gabriel Teixeira Nogueira (County Kildare, Ireland), Johnathon E. Schultz (Cross Hill, S.C.), Pietro Mascolo (County Dublin, Ireland) and Jason Mcguirk (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments utilize interpolation to smooth animation frames by generating synthetic Shapley values utilized to generate the animation. Additionally, some embodiments provide for generation of an embedding space for improved understandability of the model training based on corresponding Shapley values. The embedding space is ma...