ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,060, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Human-understandable insights for neural network predictions" was invented by Reza B'far (Irvine, Calif.), Do Joon Ra (Tustin, Calif.) and Yasin Cengiz (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for mapping human-understandable attributes to a neural network are disclosed. A system generates human-understandable explanations for decisions or predictions of a neural network by mapping human-understandable attributes to the trained neural network. The system may map a human-understandable attribute to a particular label, indicat...