US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 28 for "Enabling boosting protocols on encrypted data" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,651, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enabling boosting protocols on encrypted data" was invented by Kanthi Sarpatwar (Elmsford, N.Y.) and Roman Vaculin (Larchmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for training machine-learning models using encrypted data, a processor receives a set of encrypted data from a client computing device. A processor trains a machine-learning model using a boosting algorithm. A processor performs a first classification on the set of encrypted data using the machine-learning model. A processor sends a first set of encrypted results of...