ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,546, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (Toronto).

"System and method for machine learning architecture with differential privacy" was invented by Sayedmasoud Hashemi Amroabadi (Toronto), Ali Fathi (Toronto) and Layli Sadat Goldoozian (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Differential private dictionary learning privatizes input data by training an autoencoder to learn a dictionary, the autoencoder including an encoder and a decoder, and weights of channels in a layer in the decoder defining dictionary atoms forming the dictionary; inputting the input data to the trained autoencoder; projecting, using the encod...