US Patent Issued to MediaTek on May 12 for "Structural obfuscation for protecting deep learning models on edge devices" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,133, issued on May 12, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Structural obfuscation for protecting deep learning models on edge devices" was invented by Bor-Yeh Shen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obfuscating deep learning (DL) models includes the step of training a DL model to obtain weights of operation (OP) layers in the trained DL model. The DL model includes an interface to a public application programming interface (API) that provides access to a compiler of an artificial intelligence (AI) processor. The method further includes the steps of obfuscating the DL model by changing ...