ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,871, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Neural network obfuscation by discretization" was invented by James Ryland (Dallas) and Philip A. Sallee (South Riding, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments regard neural network (NN) obfuscation. A method can include receiving data representing the NN architecture. The NN architecture includes neurons, each neuron comprising corresponding neuron input weights, an activation function, and one or more interconnections between one or more other neurons of the neurons. The method can include mapping inputs to the neurons from a continuous domain to a discr...