US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 11 for "Privacy protection tuning for LLMs in medical decision making" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,198, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Privacy protection tuning for LLMs in medical decision making" was invented by Wei Cheng (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Wenchao Yu (Plainsboro, N.J.), Yanchi Liu (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Xujiang Zhao (Hillsborough, N.J.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.) and Yijia Xiao (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems include annotating a set of training data to indicate tokens that are sensitive. Instructions are generated based on the training data, including original token sequences and respective substituted token sequences. A language model is fine-tuned u...