ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,931, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Non-coherent modulation for federated learning" was invented by Mohamed Fouad Ahmed Marzban (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may identify, in at least one round of a federated learning procedure, at least one gradient update based on local data and a local copy of a machine learning model associated with the federated learning procedure. The UE may transmit, in the at least one round of the federated learning procedure, for a network node, an indication of the at least one gradient update based on a sign ...