ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,789, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Cooperative training migration" was invented by Rehmat Ullah (Belfast, Great Britain), Di Wu (Belfast, Great Britain), Paul Harvey (Tokyo), Peter Kilpatrick (Belfast, Great Britain), Ivor Spence (Belfast, Great Britain) and Blesson Varghese (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cooperative training migration is performed by training, cooperatively with a computational device through a network, the neural network model, creating, during the iterations of training, a data checkpoint, the data checkpoint including the gradient values and the weight valu...