ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,339, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for determining adversarial patches for a machine learning system" was invented by Andres Mauricio Munoz Delgado (Weil der Stadt, Germany), Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi (Pittsburgh), Giulio Lovisotto (Munich), Jan Hendrik Metzen (Boeblingen, Germany) and Nicole Ying Finnie (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining an adversarial patch for a machine learning system. The machine learning system is configured for image analysis and determines an output signal based on an input image. The o...