ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,613, issued on April 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy-enhanced training and deployment of machine learning models using client-side and server-side data" was invented by Abhradeep Guha Thakurta (Los Gatos, Calif.), Li Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Prateek Jain (Bangalore, India), Shuang Song (Cupertino, Calif.), Steffen Rendle (Mountain View, Calif.), Steve Shaw-Tang Chien (San Carlos, Calif.), Walid Krichene (Fremont, Calif.) and Yarong Mu (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods for training a decentralized model for making a personalized recommendation. I...