ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,447, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, N.Y.).

"Feature selection in vertical federated learning" was invented by Timothy John Castiglia (Troy, N.Y.), Yi Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Nathalie Baracaldo Angel (San Jose, Calif.), Swanand Ravindra Kadhe (San Jose, Calif.), Shiqiang Wang (White Plains, N.Y.) and Stacy Elizabeth Patterson (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques that facilitate feature selection in vertical federated learning are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise ...