US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 11 for "Distributed artificial intelligence runtime at the network edge as a service" (French, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,454, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed artificial intelligence runtime at the network edge as a service" was invented by Thomas Michel-Ange Feltin (Paris), Benjamin William Ryder (Laussane, Switzerland) and Frank Brockners (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for enabling a user and third party applications to dynamically partition and place heavy deep learning workloads on standard edge networks to optimize the overall inference throughput of the network while meeting Service Level Objective(s) (SLOs). The techniqu...