US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 29 for "System and method for federated learning with local differential privacy" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,729, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for federated learning with local differential privacy" was invented by Jianwei Qian (Mountain View, Calif.), Lichao Sun (Easton, Pa.) and Xun Chen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of initial gradients associated with a machine-learning model from a data store associated with a first electronic device, selecting one or more of the plurality of initial gradients for perturbation, generating one or more perturbed gradients for the one or more selected ...