ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,232, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Edge device machine learning" 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 computing device repeatedly trains, using a stream of user data received at the computing device, a baseline model to generate a device-trained model, wherein the baseline model is trained at the computing device without providing user data incl...