US Patent Issued to NEC on June 24 for "Edge-side federated learning for anomaly detection" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,308, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Edge-side 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 (Princeton, 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 toge...