ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,438, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Machine learning system, method, inference apparatus and computer-readable storage medium for resisting membership inference attacks" was invented by Isamu Teranishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning method including a first learning phase for training parameters Theta of a learning model f by performing machine learning using a first dataset as a training data with a correct answer label; and a second learning phase for training parameters Tau of a defender u and parameters Omega of identifier h by performing machine learning using member data contain...