ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,118, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Artificial intelligence (AI) confidentiality proxy to secure AI data sets" was invented by M. David Hanes (Lewisville, N.C.), Vivek Kumar Singh (Cary, N.C.), Gonzalo Salgueiro (Raleigh, N.C.) and Derek William Engi (Ferndale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for an artificial intelligence (AI) confidentiality proxy that can protect a network from the transferal of sensitive AI data sets to outside AI systems. A data contract is established between the proxy and outside AI systems could function as well as user personas for addit...