ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,418, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for secure aggregation protocol for protecting privacy of individual data sets" was invented by Yue Guo (Jersey City, N.J.), Antigoni Ourania Polychroniadou (New York) and Tucker Richard Balch (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a secure aggregation protocol that facilitates federated learning of machine learning models while protecting privacy of individual data sets associated with participants is provided. The method includes: a setup phase by which public key-secret key pairs are used to verify signatur...