ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,765, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for extracting artificial neural network by using meltdown vulnerability" was invented by Hoyong Jeong (Goyang-si, South Korea), Do-Hyun Ryu (Seoul, South Korea) and Junbeom Hur (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial neural network extraction method is disclosed. The artificial neural network extraction method is performed by a computing device which can communicate with a server for providing Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) and which includes at least a processor, the method comp...