ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,384, issued on March 18, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany) and CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).
"Device and method to improve the robustness against 'adversarial examples'" was invented by Jeremiah M. Cohen (Pittsburgh), Frank Schmidt (Leonberg, Germany) and Jeremy Zieg Kolter (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for assessing a robustness of a smoothed classifier for classifying sensor signals received from a sensor. The method includes: providing an input signal depending on the sensor signal, determining, by the smoothed classifier, a first value which characterizes...