ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,103, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reporting for information aggregation in federated learning" was invented by Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a base station and multiple user equipment (UEs) may participate in a federated learning operation in which each UE may transmit an unencoded uplink signal to the base station indicating one or more parameters associated with updating a local model at the UE. The base station may aggregate and average the receiv...