US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA on Jan. 20 for "Methods for long-range federated edge learning with chirp-based over-the-air computation" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,593, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Methods for long-range federated edge learning with chirp-based over-the-air computation" was invented by Safi Shams Muhtasimul Hoque (West Columbia, S.C.) and Alphan Sahin (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure deals with a system and method for circularly-shifted chirp (CSC)-based majority vote (MV) (CSC-MV), a low-peak-to-mean envelope power ratio (PMEPR) over-the-air computation (OAC) scheme, to achieve long-range federated edge learning (FEEL). The presently disclosed OAC approach maps the votes (i.e., the sign of the l...