US Patent Issued to NEC on July 28 for "Privacy-preserving federated machine learning" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,287, issued on July 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Privacy-preserving federated machine learning" was invented by Flavio Cirillo (Heidelberg, Germany) and Gurkan Solmaz (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method preserving privacy in federated machine learning system is provided. In the method, a first computing entity in the federated learning system determines a first labeling matrix based on applying a first set of labeling functions to first data points. The first labeling matrix includes a plurality of first labels. The first computing entity obtains a similarity matrix indicating similarity scores bet...