ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,554, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for detecting and preventing model inversion attacks" was invented by Dushyant Sharma (Mountain House, Calif.), Patrick Aubrey Naylor (Reading, Great Britain), William Francis Ganong III (Brookline, Mass.), Uwe Helmut Jost (Groton, Mass.) and Ljubomir Milanovic (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for executing a plurality of requests to process data using a trained machine learning model. An anomalous pattern of requests including at least a threshold amount of o...