ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,764, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to 01 Quantum Inc. (Toronto).

"Secure AI operations" was invented by Andrew Cheung (Toronto) and Alexey Shpurov (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence model marketplace system secures both models and user data by managing computation-preserving-cryptography (CPC) encryption of data and models with public and private CPC user key pairs. Models can be encrypted by the marketplace system, model vendors, or third parties. e.g., in response to user requests to apply a model to their data to obtain a model prediction. Similarly, execution of the CPC encrypted models on CPC ...