US Patent Issued to HiddenLayer on Aug. 25 for "Generative artificial intelligence model output obfuscation" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,909, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HiddenLayer Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Generative artificial intelligence model output obfuscation" was invented by David Beveridge (Vancouver, Wash.), Tanner Burns (Austin, Texas), Kwesi Cappel (Austin, Texas) and Kenneth Yeung (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis engine receives data characterizing a prompt for ingestion by a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model. The analysis engine, using a determines using, for example, a classifier or blocklist, that the prompt comprises or is indicative of malicious content or otherwise elicits undesired model behavior. Similarly, ou...