ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,576, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Method for digitally watermark a neural network, device and corresponding computer program" was invented by Henri Belfy (Toulouse, France) and Tom Fougere (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of digitally watermarking a neural network, implemented by an electronic device, the neural network being stored within a data structure including blocks of parameters. The method includes, for a current parameter block consisting of at least N parameters representing real numbers, obtaining a message including N bits, at least N iterations of a parameter modifi...