US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on May 20 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for integrating a defense mechanism into deep-learning-based systems to defend against adversarial attacks" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,934, issued on May 20, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for integrating a defense mechanism into deep-learning-based systems to defend against adversarial attacks" was invented by Yuzhen Ding (Tempe, Ariz.), Nupur Thakur (Tempe, Ariz.) and Baoxin Li (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are means for integrating a defense mechanism into deep-learning-based systems to defend against adversarial attacks. For instance, an exemplary system is specially configured for adding a convolutional defense layer to a ne...