US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Aug. 11 for "Membership inference attacks utilizing autonomous users" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,341, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Membership inference attacks utilizing autonomous users" was invented by Ian Hanus (Belmont, Calif.) and Animesh Agarwal (Dulles, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for conducting membership inference attacks are disclosed. In an example, a plurality of target interactions of a target user with an item providing platform are monitored. A plurality of target recommendations for the target user is received from a recommendation system of the item providing platform. Using an attack classifier and based on (i) the plurality of target...