ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,391, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink-supported federated learning for training a machine learning component" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Franklin Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, a sidelink communication that indicates a first subset of local training data of a set of local training data associated with the second UE. The UE may transmit a combined local update ...