ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,037, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to enable sharing of sensitive data" was invented by Julien Forgeat (San Jose, Calif.), Meral Shirazipour (San Jose, Calif.) and Ricardo Souza (Indaiatuba, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method generates synthetic data by a data collection system where the synthetic data meets a first threshold for accuracy and a second threshold for protecting sensitive data from recovery from the synthetic data. The method includes collecting data including sensitive data and non-sensitive data, executin...