ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,232, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Certification-based robust training by refining decision boundary" was invented by Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.), Wang Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Subhro Das (Cambridge, Mass.), Pin-Yu Chen (White Plains, N.Y.), Alexandre Megretski (Acton, Mass.) and Luca Daniel (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for certifying robustness of image classification in a neural network is provided. The method includes initializing a neural network model. Th...