US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on June 17 for "Methods for creating privacy-protecting synthetic data leveraging a constrained generative ensemble model" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,711, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Methods for creating privacy-protecting synthetic data leveraging a constrained generative ensemble model" was invented by Engin Dikici (Dublin, Ohio), Luciano Prevedello (Dublin, Ohio) and Matthew Bigelow (Hilliard, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods for generating and using a constrained ensemble of GANs. The constrained ensemble of GANs can be used to generate synthetic data that is (1) representative of the original data, and (2) not closely resembling the original data. An example method includes generating a...