ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,898, issued on April 14, was assigned to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for intrusion detection using federated learning" was invented by Kaushik Roy (Greensboro, N.C.), Zhipeng Liu (Greensboro, N.C.), Xiaohong Yuan (Greensboro, N.C.) and David Johnson (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for intrusion detection using federated learning. In some examples, a system includes a central server configured for generating an initial security model and distributing the initial security model to edge nodes. Each edge node is configured for ex...