US Patent Issued to U.S. Bancorp, National Association on March 4 for "Method to detect and defend against targetted adversarial attacks on a federated learning system" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,622, issued on March 4, was assigned to U.S. Bancorp, National Association (Minneapolis).

"Method to detect and defend against targetted adversarial attacks on a federated learning system" was invented by Sherin Mathews (Fremont, Calif.) and Samuel Assefa (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises transmitting a first client model to a first computing device and a second client model to a second computing device; determining (i) a first predictive score ratio for the first computing device, and (ii) a first predictive score ratio for the second computing device; determining the first computing device and the ...