US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 3 for "Trusted and decentralized aggregation for federated learning" (New York, Connecticut, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,708, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Trusted and decentralized aggregation for federated learning" was invented by Jayaram Kallapalayam Radhakrishnan (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Ashish Verma (Nanuet, N.Y.), Zhongshu Gu (Ridgewood, N.J.), Enriquillo Valdez (Queens, N.Y.), Pau-Chen Cheng (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Hani Talal Jamjoom (Cos Cob, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for distributed federated learning leverage a multi-layered defense strategy to provide for reduced information leakage. In lieu of aggregating model updates centrally, an aggregation function is d...