US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 7 for "Secure enforcement of digital rights in artificial intelligence models" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,771, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure enforcement of digital rights in artificial intelligence models" was invented by Isuru Chamara Pathirana (Seattle), Marcin Maciej Stankiewicz (Redmond, Wash.), Kumar Rajeev (Redmond, Wash.), Glenn F. Evans (Kirkland, Wash.) and Priya Rakesh Patel (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology disclosed herein related to a distributed architecture for securely delivering AI models and/or training data sets to client devices for local use. The distributed includes a licensing server that controls access to and decrypt...