ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,433, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Coordinated feature engineering system" was invented by Davor Bonaci (Kirkland, Wash.), Benjamin Chambers (Seattle), Jordan Frazier (Seattle), Ryan Michael (Durham, N.C.), Charna Parkey (Seattle), Eric Pinzur (Berlin) and Kevin Nguyen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for federated learning comprises a first computing node comprising a first database configured to store data indicative of events associated with a particular subset of a plurality of entities. The first computing node may be configured at least to receive a sec...