US Patent Issued to NEC on July 14 for "Federated learning system, federated learning apparatus, federated learning method, and federated learning program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,251, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Federated learning system, federated learning apparatus, federated learning method, and federated learning program" was invented by Hikaru Tsuchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A federated learning apparatus in a federated learning system includes: a model storage part that replicates and stores a shared model as a local model; a local training part that trains the local model by using data held by the federated learning apparatus; a secret sharing part that decomposes a local update parameter indicating a training result of the local model into shares based on an a...