ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,946, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for semantic communication for cyber security" was invented by Saeideh Parsaei Fard (Cupertino, Calif.) and Matthias Sauer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving coded data comprising a plurality of data elements, each data element comprising a coded message; determining, for a coded message and based on a semantic model, a semantic distortion value, the semantic model comprising one or more classifiers configured to identify a de...