US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 10 for "Zero knowledge proof of deep neural network ownership" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,683, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Zero knowledge proof of deep neural network ownership" was invented by Nojan Sheybani (San Diego), Farinaz Koushanfar (San Diego), Ritvik Kapila (San Diego) and Zahra Ghodsi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a secure setup is performed by a trusted third party to generate, based on an obfuscated watermark extractor, a prover key and a verifier key to prove ownership of a first machine learning model by a model owner without divulging a trigger key or a watermark corresponding to the first machine le...