ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,305, issued on March 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data security for machine learning systems" was invented by Thomas Henry Alphin III (Kirkland, Wash.), Christophe Alain Berthoud (Seattle), Agueda Sanchez (Seattle), Vaheeshta Shereen Mehrshahi (Redmond, Wash.) and Charlie Lertlumprasert (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein provides a system and method for securely managing information provided to a machine-learning system. In particular, the machine-learning system may determine that additional user data will improve the accuracy of a task being p...