US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on Aug. 12 for "AI-based trojans for evading machine learning detection" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,860, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"AI-based trojans for evading machine learning detection" was invented by Prabhat Kumar Mishra (Gainesville, Fla.) and Zhixin Pan (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide a robust backdoor attack on machine learning (ML)-based detection systems that can be applied to demonstrate and identify vulnerabilities thereof. In various embodiments, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based Trojan attack is generated and implanted inside a ML model trained for classification and/or detection tasks, and th...