US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on March 4 for "Method and apparatus for vertical federated learning" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,689, issued on March 4, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for vertical federated learning" was invented by Yong Cheng (Guangdong, China), Fangcheng Fu (Guangdong, China), Pin Xiao (Guangdong, China) and Yangyu Tao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method for vertical federated learning. In multiple participation nodes deployed in a multi-way tree topology, an upper-layer participation node corresponds to k lower-layer participation nodes. After the upper-layer participation node and the k lower-layer participation nodes exchange public keys...