ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,940, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Graph exploration framework for adversarial example generation" was invented by Taesung Lee (Ridgefield, Conn.), Kevin Eykholt (White Plains, N.Y.), Douglas Lee Schales (Ardsley, N.Y.), Jiyong Jang (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Ian Michael Molloy (Westchester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method generates adversarial example objects. One or more processors represent an adversarial input generation process as a graph. The processor(s) explore the graph, such that a sequence of edges on the graph are explored. The proce...