ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,125, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting an algorithmic attack against a hosted AI system based on inputs and outputs of the hosted AI system" was invented by Hyrum Spencer Anderson (Eagle, Idaho), Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda (Bellevue, Wash.), William Pearce (Highland, Utah), Ricky Dee Loynd (Redmond, Wash.), James David McCaffrey (Issaquah, Wash.) and Ram Shankar Siva Kumar (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of detecting an algorithmic attack against a hosted artificial intelligence (AI) system based on inputs (...