US Patent Issued to Sonova on Sept. 16 for "System and methods for detecting a copy of a deep neural network in a hearing device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,285, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"System and methods for detecting a copy of a deep neural network in a hearing device" was invented by Sebastian Stenzel (Staefa, Switzerland), Sebastian Kroedel (Staefa, Switzerland), Claudio Santelli (Staefa, Switzerland), Christos Dimopoulos (Zurich) and Harald Krueger (Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are presented for detecting an authentic copy of a deep neural network in a device without reverse engineering the device. For example, the device can be a hearing device. A method is presented that includes pr...