US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 24 for "Server efficient enhancement of privacy in federated learning" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,810, issued on June 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Server efficient enhancement of privacy in federated learning" was invented by Om Thakkar (San Jose, Calif.), Abhradeep Guha Thakurta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Peter Kairouz (Seattle), Borja de Balle Pigem (London) and Brendan McMahan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that enable training a global model using gradients provided to a remote system by a set of client devices during a reporting window, where each client device randomly determines a reporting time in the reporting window to provide the gradient to the remote system. V...