ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,709, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZestFinance Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for improving machine learning models via dimensionality reduction evaluation to reduce disparate impact on protected class individuals" was invented by Douglas C. Merrill (Burbank, Calif.), Michael Edward Ruberry (Burbank, Calif.), Ozan Sayin (Burbank, Calif.), Bojan Tunguz (Burbank, Calif.), Lin Song (Burbank, Calif.), Esfandiar Alizadeh (Burbank, Calif.), Melanie Eunique DeBruin (Burbank, Calif.), Yachen Yan (Burbank, Calif.), Derek Wilcox (Burbank, Calif.), John Candido (Burbank, Calif.), Benjamin Anthony Solecki (Burbank, Calif.), Jiahuan He (Burbank, Calif.), Jerome Louis Budzik ...