ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,204, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Machine learning network extension based on homomorphic encryption packings" was invented by Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel) and Moran Baruch (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to receive a machine learning network and a selected homomorphic encryption (HE) packing framework. The processor can generate list of HE packings for the machine learning network based on the selected HE packing framework. The processor can extend the machine learning network to include additional neuron...