ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,982, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Adaptive and evolutionary federated learning system" was invented by Bhushan Gurmukhdas Jagyasi (Maharashtra, India), Siva Rama Sarma Theerthala (Secunderaba, India), Saurabh Pashine (Madhya Pradesh, India), Soumit Bhowmick (Kolkata, India) and Gopali Raval Contractor (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a system and method for federated collaborative machine learning model development using local training datasets that are not shared. An adaptive and evolutionary approach is used to select local training nodes ...