ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,467, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Decentralized cross-node learning for audience propensity prediction" was invented by Boyi Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Tong Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Siyao Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lijun Peng (Mountain View, Calif.), Xinruo Jing (Foster City, Calif.), Vakwadi Thejaswini Holla (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pankhuri Goyal (San Jose, Calif.), Souvik Ghosh (Saratoga, Calif.), Zheng Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yi Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.), Onkar A. Dalal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jing Wang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Aarthi Jayaram (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* relea...