ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,678, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device and method for federated learning" was invented by Chen Sun (Beijing), Songtao Wu (Beijing) and Tao Cui (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for federated learning. The electronic device for federated learning at a central processing apparatus comprises a processing circuitry which is configured to: determine a group of distributed nodes for generating a global model parameter among a plurality of distributed nodes, wherein the correlation between local training data of the group ...