US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Power control in over the air aggregation for federated learning" (Pennsylvania, California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,979, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power control in over the air aggregation for federated learning" was invented by Eren Balevi (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Taesang Yoo (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Junyi Li (Greentown, Pa.) and Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parameter server located at a base station may coordinate federated learning among multiple user equipment (UEs) using over-the-air (OTA) aggregation with power control to mitigate aggregation distortion due to amplitude misalignment. The parameter server may select a first group of UEs for a...