ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,077, issued on March 18, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for generating artificial intelligence resistant verification images" was invented by Scott Moe (Austin, Texas), Nicholas Penha Malaya (Austin, Texas), Sudhanva Gurumurthi (Austin, Texas) and Naman Maheshwari (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes one or more processors that are configured to determine a pixel-by-pixel bounds for a perturbed image, generate an adversarial example using an adversarial example generation technique, and modify the adversarial example to generate the perturbed im...