US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 1 for "Privacy preservation of data over a shared network" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,479, issued on July 1, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Privacy preservation of data over a shared network" was invented by Ayse Parlak (Princeton, N.J.) and Leandro Pfleger de Aguiar (Robbinsville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method are disclosed for preserving privacy of shared data over a shared network. A vector encoder transforms received data into a feature vector. An autoencoder includes a neural network-based encoder transforms the feature vector into a fixed size latent space representation of the received data. A neural network-based decoder of the autoencoder is configured to reconstruct the feature ...