US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Nov. 25 for "Privacy-preserving splitting of neural network models for prediction across multiple devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,234, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Privacy-preserving splitting of neural network models for prediction across multiple devices" was invented by Krishna Prasad Agara Venkatesha Rao (Bengaluru, India) and Akshay Shekhar Kadakol (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first electronic device and a method for implementation for privacy-preserving splitting of neural network (NN) models for prediction across multiple devices is disclosed. The first electronic device applies an NN model on a received input datapoint to determine a set of feature maps. Each feature map is compared with the receive...