ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,430, issued on June 30, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Edge data distribution cliques" was invented by Paulo Abelha Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Pablo Nascimento da Silva (Niteroi, Brazil) and Vinicius Michel Gottin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for model updating based on maximal cliques. The method may include transmitting, by a model coordinator, a probability distribution request signal to a plurality of edge nodes; receiving, by the model coordinator, a separate feature probability distribution from each of the pluralit...