ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,766, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for training privacy preserving model" was invented by Huiwen Wu (Hangzhou, China), Cen Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Li Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Privacy preservation model training includes a plurality of iterative update rounds performed on a model held by a data party of a plurality of data parties participating in training to obtain model data, which includes first shared data and local data corresponding to a shared portion and a dedicated portion of the model, r...