ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,564, issued on May 26, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH; CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for estimating perturbation norm for the spectrum of robustness" was invented by Leslie Rice (Pittsburgh), Jeremy Kolter (Pittsburgh) and Wan-Yi Lin (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-program product storing instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to, for one or more iterations, update parameters associated with a machine-learning network utilizing perturbations for input data, wherein the perturbations are sampled utilizing Markov chain Monte Carlo, identify a loss valu...