ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,753, issued on May 27, was assigned to K2 Network Labs Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Secure multi-agent system for privacy-preserving distributed computation" 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 system for secure compute using artificial intelligence agents. The system includes a hardware execution environment with one or more computerized processors and electronic storage media. The processors are configured to establish a secure agent comprising a secure state management module, an encrypted state transition management module...