US Patent Issued to HiddenLayer on April 8 for "Data obfuscation using encoder-multi-decoder architecture" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,805, issued on April 8, was assigned to HiddenLayer Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Data obfuscation using encoder-multi-decoder architecture" was invented by Julian Collado Umana (Irvine, Calif.) and Andrew Davis (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder receives first data encapsulating second data in a hidden compartment along with a decoder identifier corresponding to either of a first decoder or a second decoder. The encoder then generates an embedding corresponding to the first data. The first decoder decodes the embedding to result in a representation of the first data when the decoder identifier corresponds to the firs...