ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,057, issued on July 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Local computing resource creation for performing machine learning tasks" was invented by Prateek Mehrotra (Bothell, Wash.), Mufaddal Taher Rohawala (Seattle), Owen Thomas (Seattle), Haja Maideen Mohamed Thajudeen (North Bend, Wash.), George Anthony Torres (Portland, Ore.), Kalyani Madhukar Nikure (Lynnwood, Wash.), Clayton Royce Parnell (Decatur, Ga.), Ling Hoi Wong (Seattle), Shweta Singh (Kirkland, Wash.) and Rekha Seshadrinathan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Local computing resources may be created for machine learning tasks. A kernel of ...