US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Non-linear approximation robust to input range of homomorphic encryption analytics" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,381, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Non-linear approximation robust to input range of homomorphic encryption analytics" was invented by Omri Soceanu (Haifa, Israel), Allon Adir (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Omer Yehuda Boehm (Haifa, Israel), Boris Rozenberg (Ramat Gan, Israel), Eyal Kushnir (Kfar Vradim, Israel) and Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for privacy-preserving homomorphic inferencing using a neural network having an activation function, such as a non-linear high-degree polynomial. The network is trained to learn input features of...