ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,019, issued on June 30, was assigned to ALIBABA (CHINA) Co. LTD. (Zhejiang Province, China).

"Batch computing system and associated method" was invented by Xuechao Wei (Beijing), Zhe Zhou (Beijing), Jiejing Zhang (Beijing), Sicheng Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yen-Kuang Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Bizhao Shi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a batch computing system and an associated method. The batch computing system includes a memory, a task manager and an inference computer. The memory stores a shared model parameter set common to a plurality of tasks that is generated by fine tuning a shared mod...