ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,902, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Automated machine learning model assessment" was invented by John Gwilliams (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sultan Saadaldean Alsharif (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Abdulmalik Abdulaziz Aljurayyad (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Eidan K. Aleidan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for security testing of machine learning (ML) models. A request is received to perform a security test on a first ML model, wherein the request comprises a file with the first ML model....