US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 4 for "Transformer-based AI-module with an activation function" (Italian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,001, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Transformer-based AI-module with an activation function" was invented by Daniele Comi (Bernareggio, Italy), Stefano Braghin (Dublin), Martina Verrelli (Rome) and Cristina Bonanni (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for a method for calculating a fully homomorphically encrypted output value of a function of a transformer-based AI-module, dependent on a fully homomorphically encrypted input value of the function, the function representing a non-linear function to be approximated by the function. The method comprises pr...