US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 13 for "Blockchain for artificial intelligence training" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,662, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Blockchain for artificial intelligence training" was invented by Qi Zhang (Elmsford, N.Y.), Nitin Gaur (Roundrock, Texas), Petr Novotny (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) and Lei Yu (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of dividing a neural network that corresponds to an artificial intelligence (AI) model into a plurality of sub-models, assigning the plurality of sub-models to a plurality of blockchain peers, respectively, training the sub-models, via the plurality of blockchain peers, to generate...