ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,069, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Secure Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) accelerator" was invented by Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, India), Veeramanikandan Raju (Bangalore, India), Chaitanya Ghone (Pune, India) and Deepak Poddar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CNN based-signal processing includes receiving of an encrypted output from a first layer of a multi-layer CNN data. The received encrypted output is subsequently decrypted to form a decrypted input to a second layer of the multi-layer CNN data. A convolution of the decrypted input with a corresponding decrypted we...