US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 27 for "Patch-based adversarial attack detection and mitigation" (Kenyan, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,838, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Patch-based adversarial attack detection and mitigation" was invented by Celia Cintas (Nairobi, Kenya), Hannah Halin Kim (New York), Girmaw Abebe Tadesse (Nairobi, Kenya) and Skyler Speakman (Nairobi, Kenya).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A present invention embodiment prevents patch-based adversarial attacks. A plurality of time-series images are processed using a machine learning model to identify an anomaly, wherein the anomaly comprises an adversarial patch-based attack, and wherein the anomaly is present in a locality comprising a parti...