ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,947, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"System and method for employing multiple models for federated machine learning" was invented by Philipp Knuesel (Nussloch, Germany), Andre Sres (Winnweiler, Germany), Mirko Hin (Mannheim, Germany), Roman Rommel (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany), Janick Frasch (Heidelberg, Germany), Santo Bianchino (Romerberg, Germany) and Dominik Heere (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a federated machine learning, including the inference and training. Inference may be done by applying multiple machine learning models to a mapp...