ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,228, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Selecting and validating firmware for telecommunications servers" was invented by Mihai Lazar (Nepean, Canada), Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.) and Ramesh Ganapathi (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can identify respective anonymized results of respective firmware upgrades of respective computer systems resulting from performing respective instances of federated learning on the respective computer systems. The system can aggregate the anonymized results to produce aggregated results. The system can identify software operating on a compute...