ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,965, issued on April 7, was assigned to HiddenLayer Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Cross-model format comparison" was invented by Kasimir Ralph Peter Schulz (Raleigh, N.C.) and David Beveridge (Vancouver, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning model representation is obtained from a model source and information characterizing the layers of the model representation is extracted to result in extracted model information. This extracted model information can be compared to information characterizing one or more known (i.e., previously characterized) machine learning models in order to determine whether there is a match based on ...