ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,392, issued on July 1, was assigned to Wesco Distribution Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for reinforcing search engine behavior using federated learning" was invented by Kishor Saitwal (Sugar Land, Texas), Shashi Dande (Spring, Texas), Raja Vikram Raj Pandya (Katy, Texas), Avinash Wesley (New Caney, Texas), Rafael Da Matta Navarro (Houston), Merwan Mereby (Baton Rouge, La.), Ashok Bajaj (Katy, Texas) and Akash Khurana (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for reinforcing and modifying the search engine behavior using aspects of federated learning. A system can receive fr...