ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,302, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Technologies Inc. (San Diego).
"Zone-based federated learning" was invented by Vijaya Datta Mayyuri (San Diego) and An Chen (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing model updates by a first zone server, associated with a first zone model of a plurality of zone models, includes receiving a global model from a global server associated with the global model. The method also includes transmitting the global model to user equipment (UEs) in a first group of UEs associated with the first zone model. The method further includes receiving, from one or more UEs in the fir...