ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,558, issued on July 14, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Model architecture search and optimization for hardware" was invented by Tao Yu (Somerville, Mass.), Cristobal Alessandri (Boston), Frank Yaul (Somerville, Mass.), Wenjie Lu (Arlington, Mass.) and Shyam Chandrasekhar Nambiar (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods related to using model architecture search for hardware configuration are provided. An example apparatus includes an input node to receive an input signal; a pool of processing units to perform one or more arithmetic operations and one or more signal selection oper...