ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,985, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Federated learning for improving matching efficiency" was invented by Lianghui Chen (Beijing), Yan Fu (Beijing), Yangjie Zhou (Beijing) and Jun Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: sending, by one or more computers, in response to the number of data providers for federated learning being greater than a first threshold, a data field required for the federated learning to a coordinator, the coordinator comprising a computer; receiving, by one or more computers, from the coordinator, information about one o...