ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,729, issued on July 7, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Apparatus and method for distributed model training, device, and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Zhihua Wu (Beijing), Dianhai Yu (Beijing), Xuefeng Yao (Beijing), Wei Tang (Beijing), Xinxuan Wu (Beijing), Mo Cheng (Beijing), Lin Ma (Beijing), Yanjun Ma (Beijing), Tian Wu (Beijing) and Haifeng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an apparatus and method for distributedly training a model, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus may include:...