ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,186, issued on July 22, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Communication and computation aware distributed machine learning for vehicular networks" was invented by Jianlin Guo (Newton, Mass.), Ferdous Pervej (Raleigh, N.C.), Kyeong-Jin Kim (Lexington, Mass.), Kieran Parsons (Cambridge, Mass.), Philip Orlik (Cambridge, Mass.), Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.), Marcel Menner (Cambridge, Mass.) and Karl Berntorp (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for training a global machine learning model using a learning server and a set of vehi...