US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Vertical federated forest for diversity in machine learning" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,994, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Vertical federated forest for diversity in machine learning" was invented by Paulo Abelha Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Adriana Bechara Prado (Niteroi, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving a random forest classifier model that comprises a group of decision trees, wherein the random forest classifier model is created using a vertical federated framework, providing new observations, not included in a set of training observations, to a trained random forest classifier model, wherein the random forest classifier m...