US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 19 for "Oblivious binary neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,734, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Oblivious binary neural networks" was invented by Mohammad Sadegh Riazi (San Diego), Farinaz Koushanfar (San Diego) and Mohammad Samragh Razlighi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework is presented that provides a shift in the conceptual and practical realization of privacy-preserving interference on deep neural networks. The framework leverages the concept of the binary neural networks (BNNs) in conjunction with the garbled circuits protocol. In BNNs, the weights and activations are restricted to binary (e.g., plus-mi...