ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,890, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Learning pattern dictionary from noisy numerical data in distributed networks" was invented by Tsuyoshi Ide (Harrison, N.Y.), Rudy Raymond Harry Putra (Yokohama, Japan) and Dung Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative learning framework is presented. The collaborative framework is implemented by multiple network nodes interconnected by a network. The network nodes belong to multiple client systems of the framework. A network node belonging to a first client system constructs a predictive model for the first clie...