ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,951, issued on May 12, was assigned to Irdeto B.V. (Hoofddorp, Netherlands).

"System and method for preventing attacks on a machine learning model based on an internal state of the model" was invented by Thomas Hickie (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed implementations include a method of detecting attacks on Machine Learning (ML) models by applying the concept of anomaly detection based on the internal state of the model being protected. Instead of looking at the input or output data directly, disclosed implementation look at the internal state of the hidden layers of a neural network of the model after processing of dat...