ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,497, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Federated learning" was invented by Shreya Anand (Bangalore, India), Anshul Jain (Bangalore, India), Shiva Moorthy Pookala Vittal (Bangalore, India), Aleksandr Bukharev (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Richard Vdovjak (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a federated learning system. A federated model is trained on respective local training datasets of respective multiple edge devices. In an iteration, an edge device obtains a current federated model, determines a model update for the current feder...