ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,277, issued on May 6, was assigned to HiddenLayer Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Multimodal generative AI model protection using sequential sidecars" was invented by Kenneth Yeung (Ottawa) and Jason Martin (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is received which includes multimodal input for ingestion by a first generative AI (GenAI) model is received. This received data is input into the first GenAI model to result in a first output. The first output along with the received data is input into a second GenAI model to result in a second output. The first GenAI model is a modified (e.g., fine-tuned, etc.) version of the second Ge...