ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,010, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Methods and systems for secure data analysis and machine learning" was invented by David Neale Carley (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for secure machine learning are disclosed. The methods include, by a processor: receiving a labeled dataset for use in training the machine learning model, and transmitting a first cluster of training data selected from the labeled dataset to a training device. The first cluster includes less than a threshold amount of data that is determined to prevent the training device ...