ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,520, issued on July 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).
"Neural network watermarking" was invented by Jakob Sternby (Lund, Sweden) and Bjorn Johansson (Bjarred, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Training a neural network and embedding a watermark in the network to prove ownership. The network includes a plurality of trainable parameters associated with network nodes in which the plurality of trainable parameters is split into a first set of trainable parameters and a second set of trainable parameters. A first set of training samples is input to the network and the network is trained by iterati...