ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,300, issued on July 28, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Gui'an New District, China).

"Servers, methods and systems for fair and secure vertical federated learning" was invented by Zirui Zhou (Surrey, Canada), Changxin Liu (Victoria, Canada) and Yong Zhang (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Servers, methods and systems are disclosed for fair and secure vertical federated learning. Fair and secure vertical federated learning (FSVFL) systems are disclosed that achieve one or more of the following properties: model fairness, high security, high accuracy, high efficiency, and/or high generality....