US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for mitigating bias in machine learning models" (North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,953, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for mitigating bias in machine learning models" was invented by Joshua Scott Andrews (Raleigh, N.C.), Wei Sun (Fairfax, Va.) and Xuning Tang (Mclean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive protected attribute data, observation data, and target variable data associated with a machine learning model, and may include intersectional groups in the protected attribute data to expand a quantity of demographic subgroups and to generate modified protected attribute data. The device may calculate an expected prop...