ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,690, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"Random sampling consensus federated semi-supervised learning" was invented by Xiaomeng Li (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and systems for random sampling consensus federated (RSCFed) learning in non-IID settings are provided. The method includes randomly sampling local clients, assigning a current global model to the randomly sampled local clients for initialization at beginning of a synchronization round, conducting local training on the randomly sampled local clients, collecting local models from the randomly ...