US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Aug. 19 for "System and method with masking and inpainting strategy for generic defense against patch attacks" (Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,028, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"System and method with masking and inpainting strategy for generic defense against patch attacks" was invented by Aniruddha Saha (Elkridge, Md.), Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi (Pittsburgh), Wan-Yi Lin (Wexford, Pa.) and Filipe Condessa (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include dividing a source image into a plurality of source regions, which are portions of the source image that correspond to a plurality of grid regions. A mask is used to create a first masked region that masks a first source region and a first unmasked region tha...