ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,934, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Irdeto B.V. (Hoofddorp, Netherlands).

"System and method for creating secured neural networks" was invented by Thomas William Hickie (Ottawa) and Philip Allan Eisen (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of embedding an implementation of a shared-secret obfuscation mechanism into an existing neural network to provide the neural network with more secure data interfaces is disclosed. Disclosed implementations leverage a novel form of transcoding that can be implemented within a conventional neural network. This transcoding maps a span along a continuous number line on to a segment that ...