ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,505, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Gradient transmission method and related apparatus" was invented by Chen Xu (Hangzhou, China), Gongzheng Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Jian Wang (Hangzhou, China), Rong Li (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication apparatus receives training data, and determines a first intermediate gradient based on the training data. The first intermediate gradient is used to update a parameter of a first neural network located in a second communication apparatus. The first communication appara...