ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,034, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic topology reconfiguration in federated learning systems" was invented by Harshit Daga (Atlanta), Myungjin Lee (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device provides, to a user interface, data representing a topology of a federated learning system configured across nodes in a computer network. Each node in the topology has an assigned role and is connected to at least one other node via a connector that is dependent on its assigned role. The device receives, via the u...