ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,229, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for updating a machine-learning-based prediction model with preserved privacy" was invented by Yufei Han (Antibes, France) and Chris Gates (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for updating a machine-learning-based prediction model with preserved privacy may include receiving a plurality of training data sets for training a machine-learning-based global prediction model for predicting future incidents of a computing event. Each data set may include incidents of the computing event. The ...