ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,394, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Protecting deep learned models" was invented by Sriram Srinivasan (Sammamish, Wash.), David Yuheng Zhao (Redmond, Wash.), Ming-Chieh Lee (Bellevue, Wash.) and Mu Han (Clyde Hill, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed for using machine learning models with private and public domains. Operations can be applied to transform input to a machine learning model in a private domain that is kept secret or otherwise made unavailable to third parties. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method includes apply...