US Patent Issued to Industrial Technology Research Institute on July 14 for "Data privacy protection method, server device and client device for federated learning" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,112, issued on July 14, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Data privacy protection method, server device and client device for federated learning" was invented by Ming-Chih Kao (Taipei City, Taiwan), Pang-Chieh Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia Mu Yu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Kang Cheng Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a data privacy protection method, a server device, and a client device for federated learning. A public dataset is used to perform model training on a machine learning model by a server device to generate a gradient pool incl...