ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,379, issued on June 17, was assigned to K2 Network Labs Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Privacy-preserving transformer model with encrypted dimensionality reduction" was invented by Harrison Dahme (Stateline, Nev.) and Nicholas Roberts-Huntley (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for processing data using a transformer model with privacy preservation. The method includes receiving input data, applying a dimensionality reduction operation using an input privacy layer positioned horizontally between an input layer and an execution layer of the transformer model, processing the reconstructed data, gener...