ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,620, issued on May 26, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Reuse of machine learning models" was invented by Cuong Vo (Sachse, Texas), Jeremy Fix (Acworth, Ga.), Jeffrey Dix (Rowlett, Texas), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Abhay Dabholkar (Allen, Texas), Rudolph Mappus (Plano, Texas) and James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes defining a proposal for a proposed machine learning model, identifying an existing machine learning model, where the existing machine learning model shares a similarity with the propos...