US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 24 for "Consensus driven learning" (Virginia, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,938, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Consensus driven learning" was invented by Kyle Crandall (Alexandria, Va.) and Dustin Webb (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for consensus driven learning (CDL) using machine learning (ML) to enable devices to learn a model on a data set that is distributed over several computational nodes in a decentralized manner. In an embodiment, local models are trained on local data and share model parameters in an asynchronous, decentralized, and d...