ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,394, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co. Ltd. (Guizhou, China).
"System and method for AI model watermarking" was invented by Laurent Charette (Vancouver, Canada), Lingyang Chu (Burnaby, Canada), Lanjun Wang (Toronto) and Yong Zhang (Richmond, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for watermarking prediction outputs generated by a first AI model to enable detection of a target AI model that has been distilled from the prediction outputs. Includes receiving, at the first AI model, a set of input data samples from a requesting device; storing at least a subset of the input data...