US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Protection of a machine-learning model" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,708, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Protection of a machine-learning model" was invented by Matthias Seul (Folsom, Calif.), Andrea Giovannini (Zurich), Frederik Frank Flother (Schlieren, Switzerland) and Tim Uwe Scheideler (Schoenenberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method or protecting a machine-learning model against training data attacks is disclosed. The method comprises performing an initial training of a machine-learning system with controlled training data, thereby building a trained initial machine-learning model and identifying high-i...