ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,919, issued on May 5, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for node weighting and aggregation for federated learning techniques" was invented by Kushal Singla (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may provide a technique for enhanced federated learning in an environment that makes use of one or more centralized models. Different nodes may be associated with different groups. Each node may provide refinement information for a given centralized model. The modifications for particular groups may be aggregated and the model may be modified based o...