US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on July 15 for "Proactive defense of untrustworthy machine learning system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,281, issued on July 15, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Proactive defense of untrustworthy machine learning system" was invented by Ajit Gaddam (Foster City, Calif.), Ara Jermakyan (Northridge, Calif.) and Pushkar Joglekar (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for inducing model shift in a malicious computer's machine learning model is disclosed. A data processor can determine that a malicious computer uses a machine learning model with a boundary function to determine outcomes. The data processor can then generate transition data intended to shift the boundary...