US Patent Issued to Oracle International on May 19 for "Enhanced techniques for bias analysis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,752, issued on May 19, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Enhanced techniques for bias analysis" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan (Burlington, Mass.), Michael Louis Wick (Lexington, Mass.) and Stephen J. Green (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fairness metric of decisions pertaining to a plurality of candidates indicated in a data set is estimated. Using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling algorithm, sample sets corresponding to random variables of a null model and an alternate model are obtained. A respective kernel density estimator is fitted on at least some sam...