ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,471, issued on May 12, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Secure generative-artificial intelligence platform integration on a cloud service" was invented by Ming Fang (Bellevue, Wash.), Simo Lin (Bellevue, Wash.), Beiwen Guo (Auburn, Wash.) and Wei Gao (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to secure deployment of model weights from a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platform to a cloud service. The method includes accessing the model metadata and a set of weights of a GenAI model associated with a GenAI platform. These model weights may be encrypted ...