ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,041, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Distributed training process with bottom-up error aggregation" was invented by Arindam Jati (Bangalore, India), Vijay Ekambaram (Chennai, India), Sumanta Mukherjee (Bangalore, India), Brian Leo Quanz (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Pavithra Harsha (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of storing a hierarchical data set, receiving a plurality of predicted outputs from a plurality of nodes in a distributed computing environment, respectively, wherein each predicted output is generated by ...