US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods of distributed optimization" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,427, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of distributed optimization" was invented by Hugh Brendan McMahan (Seattle), Jakub Konecny (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Eider Brantly Moore (Seattle), Daniel Ramage (Seattle) and Blaise H. Aguera-Arcas (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of determining a global model are provided. In particular, one or more local updates can be received from a plurality of user devices. Each local update can be determined by the respective user device based at least in part on one or more data examples stored on the user device. The...