ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,121, issued on May 12, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Execution of machine-trained network" was invented by Justin Tantiongloc (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Thomas (Vancouver, Canada) and Steven L. Teig (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for executing a machine-trained (MT) network that includes multiple layers. For an input set for the network divided into at least two blocks of input data, the method propagates each respective block of the input data separately through a first set of the layers of the MT network to generate respective blocks of intermediate data. Th...