US Patent Issued to Protegrity US Holding on Nov. 11 for "Detection of susceptibility of membership inference attacks on synthetic data" (British, American, Portuguese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,739, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Protegrity US Holding LLC (Stamford, Conn.).

"Detection of susceptibility of membership inference attacks on synthetic data" was invented by Andre Castro (Lisbon, Portugal), David Clyde Williamson (Great Missenden, Great Britain), Vichai Levy (Norwalk, Conn.) and Chandan Chaitanya (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data privacy system automatically determines quasi-identifiers in a database containing individuals' records. The data privacy system applies a machine learning model to the database, the model configured to classify each record in the database and output a measure of...