US Patent Issued to Cornell University, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Sept. 16 for "Task-aware privacy preservation for multi-dimensional data" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,314, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Task-aware privacy preservation for multi-dimensional data" was invented by Ao Tang (Ithaca, N.Y.), Jiangnan Cheng (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Sandeep Chinchali (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by at least one processing device in an illustrative embodiment comprises applying an input data sample to an encoder of an encoder-decoder network to generate a corresponding latent representation, combining the latent representation from the encoder with noise, applying the ...