ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,924, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Pantherun Technologies Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"Method and system for outsourcing decision-tree inference while obfuscating decision-tree attributes" was invented by Srinivas Lakshman Sekhar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for outsourcing decision tree inference involving decision tree attribute obfuscation. Embodiments provide a privacy-preserving outsourced decision tree classification framework that incorporates an attribute-hiding mechanism to obfuscate attributes of nodes of a decision tree model, which is to be inferred for classification ta...