US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 21 for "Merkle-enhanced training data audit process" (North Carolina, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,358, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Merkle-enhanced training data audit process" was invented by Gennaro Anthony Cuomo (Raleigh, N.C.) and Blaine H. Dolph (Western Springs, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive concept provides for a method of verifying data using Merkle proof and root. The method includes organizing a dataset into a Merkle tree, the dataset including a plurality of data elements. A Merkle root is generated that represents the dataset organized into the Merkle tree. A generated Merkle proof is provided for a data element of the plurality...