ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,846, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Protecting sensitive user information in developing artificial intelligence models" was invented by Dhruv Joshi (Kirkland, Wash.), Robert Sim (Bellevue, Wash.), Antonio Andre Monteiro Manoel (Santos, Brazil), Sumithra Bhakthavatsalam (Kirkland, Wash.), Ji Li (San Jose, Calif.), John Christian Leone (Milpitas, Calif.) and Dolly Sobhani (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model while protecting sensitive user information includes: a confidential computing environment in wh...