ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,470, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Federated learning model splitting and combining" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may receive, from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, one or more parameter updates associated with a first model for federated learning. The network node may transmit, to the first UE, a second model for federated learning that is based at least in p...