US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Automatically detecting outliers in federated data" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,411, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatically detecting outliers in federated data" was invented by Ruhi Sharma Mittal (Bengaluru, India), Lokesh Nagalapatti (Bangalore, India), Ramasuri Narayanam (Bangalore, India) and Sambaran Bandyopadhyay (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically detecting outliers in federated data are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining local outlier-related data from multiple client systems within a federated learning environment; detecting one ...