ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,126, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Data augmentation and batch balancing methods to enhance negation and fairness" was invented by Duy Vu (Melbourne, Australia), Varsha Kuppur Rajendra (Bellevue, Wash.), Dai Hoang Tran (Sydney), Shivashankar Subramanian (Melbourne, Australia), Poorya Zaremoodi (Melbourne, Australia), Thanh Long Duong (Seabrook, Australia) and Mark Edward Johnson (Castle Cove, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for augmentation and batch balancing of training data to enhance negation and fairness of a machine learning model. In one particular...