ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,120, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recommending model contributions based on federated learning lineage" was invented by Ambrish Rawat (Dublin), Mark Purcell (Naas, Ireland) and Stefano Braghin (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for recommending model contributions based on federated learning lineage. The computer system retrieves information of model checkpoints. The computer system trains data analytic models for monitoring activities of training rounds in a federated learning system, base...