ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,361, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Federated machine learning management" was invented by Abhishek Chhibber (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Darshankumar Bhadrasinh Desai (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Charles Todasco (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vidyut Mukund Naware (Fremont, Calif.) and Nitin S. Sharma (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed in which a computer system receives, from a plurality of user computing devices, a plurality of device-trained models and obfuscated sets of user data stored at the plurality of user computing devices, where the device-trained models are trained a...