US Patent Issued to CHINA UNIONPAY on July 29 for "Model gradient update method and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,737, issued on July 29, was assigned to CHINA UNIONPAY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Model gradient update method and device" was invented by Dong Cheng (Shanghai), Xin Cheng (Shanghai), Yongkai Zhou (Shanghai), Pengfei Gao (Shanghai) and Tiecheng Jiang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a model gradient update method and device, for use in improving the accuracy of model training. A central server repeatedly executes a gradient update process until a stop condition is satisfied. One gradient update process comprises: receiving first gradients respectively sent by multiple nodes, the first gradients bei...