ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,673, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Multitask distributed learning system and method based on lottery ticket neural network" was invented by Seong-Lyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Se Jin Seo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed learning system and method comprises the steps of: obtaining an initial global weight broadcast and applying the initial global weight to a local model; performing a simulation test on a local model using test data obtained in advance according to a pre-designated task to be performed by the dist...