MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202444100421 A) filed by Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy, Espoo, Finland, on Dec. 18, 2024, for 'identifying straggler devices.'

Inventor(s) include Muhammad Majid Butt; and Istvan Zsolt Kovacs.

The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Identifying Straggler Devices This specification discloses an apparatus, method and computer program. The method may comprise identifying one or more straggler devices among a plurality of devices, suspending transmission of an aggregated model to the one or more straggler devices for local model training, ...