ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,808, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Federated learning for anomaly detection" was invented by Dongjin Song (Princeton, N.J.), Yuncong Chen (Plainsboro, N.J.), Cristian Lumezanu (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Takehiko Mizoguchi (West Windsor, N.J.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.) and Wei Zhu (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for training a neural network include collecting model exemplar information from edge devices, each model exemplar having been trained using information local to the respective edge devices. The collected model exemplar information is aggregated together usin...