US Patent Issued to LATENT AI on Aug. 25 for "System and method for securing a neural network runtime engine" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,896, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LATENT AI INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System and method for securing a neural network runtime engine" was invented by Sek Meng Chai (Princeton, N.J.), Jonathan D. Brookshire (Princeton, N.J.) and Abelardo Lopez-Lagunas (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus and method are provided for securing a neural network (or other artificial intelligence model) against malicious activity, such as piracy, theft of intellectual property, sabotage, etc. One or more security elements or features (e.g., digital watermarks, encryption, obfuscation) are applied to the neural network ...