ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,687, issued on July 21, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for explaining machine learning models" was invented by Ziyan Wu (Lexington, Mass.), Meng Zheng (Cambridge, Mass.), Benjamin Planche (Briarwood, N.Y.), Zhongpai Gao (Rowley, Mass.), Abhishek Sharma (Boston) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The decision process of a first machine learning (ML) model may be explained based on a second ML model implemented on an apparatus. The apparatus may obtain a prediction about an image made based on the first ML model. The apparatus may further de...