ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,591, issued on July 8, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Secure aggregation of information using federated learning" was invented by Antigoni Ourania Polychroniadou (New York), Tucker Richard Balch (Suwanee, Ga.) and Yue Guo (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for learning a shared machine learning model while preserving privacy of individual participants is provided. The method includes: receiving, from each of a group of users, an encrypted user input; when a number of user inputs is greater than or equal to a threshold, transmitting, to each user, a list of the group of users; receiving, f...