US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on Sept. 23 for "Federated learning system for training machine learning algorithms and maintaining patient privacy" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,322, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Federated learning system for training machine learning algorithms and maintaining patient privacy" was invented by Faranak Aghaei (Tucson, Ariz.), Nidhin Murari (Tucson, Ariz.), Jim F. Martin (Tucson, Ariz.), Joachim Schmid (Tucson, Ariz.), Fahime Sheikhzadeh (Tucson, Ariz.) and Anirudh Som (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a federated learning classifier in digital pathology includes distributing, by a centralized server, a global model to a plurality of client devices. The client devices further train the global ...