ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,747, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distributed image distillation for private and efficient event prediction in logistics" was invented by Paulo Abelha Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Vinicius Michel Gottin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Pablo Nascimento da Silva (Niteroi, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes, in an environment having a first near-edge node and a second near-edge node, each of which is operable to communicate with a respective set of edge nodes and with a central node: instantiating, by the central node, a dataset distillation process, wherein ...