ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,410, issued on June 30, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Privacy enhanced federated training and inference over vertically and horizontally partitioned data" was invented by Swanand Ravindra Kadhe (San Jose, Calif.), Heiko H. Ludwig (San Francisco), Nathalie Baracaldo Angel (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Alan Jonathan King (South Salem, N.Y.), Keith Coleman Houck (Rye, N.Y.), Ambrish Rawat (Dublin), Mark Purcell (Naas, Ireland), Naoise Holohan (Maynooth, Ireland), Mikio Takeuchi (Yokohama, Japan), Ryo Kawahara (Toshima-ward, Japan), Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel) and Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abs...