ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,331, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Distributed labeling for supervised learning" was invented by Abhishek Bhowmick (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ryan M. Rogers (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Umesh S. Vaishampayan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Andrew H. Vyrros (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a technique to crowdsource labeling of training data for a machine learning model while maintaining the privacy of the data provided by crowdsourcing participants. Client devices can be used to generate proposed labels for a unit of data to be used in a training dataset. One or ...