ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,413, issued on July 21, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Methods for reliable over-the-air computation with pulses for distributed learning and with federated edge learning without channel state information" was invented by Alphan Sahin (Columbia, S.C.), Bryson Everette (Columbia, S.C.) and Safi Shams Muhtasimu Hoque (West Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An over-the-air computation (AirComp) scheme is proposed for federated edge learning (FEEL) without channel state information (CSI) at the edge devices (EDs) or edge server (ES). The proposed scheme adopts the majority vote (MV) principle ...