ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,342, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems directed to blockchain-enabled model storage, sharing and deployment for supporting distributed learning" was invented by Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.) and Paul Russell (Lawrence, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products directed to blockchain-enabled model storage, sharing and deployment for supporting federated learning are provided. Among the methods is a method directe...