ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,108, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Drift forecasting for alternative model selection" was invented by Vinicius Michel Gottin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Herberth Birck Frohlich (Florianopolis, Brazil), Julia Drummond Noce (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Italo Gomes Santana (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes obtaining, by a central node, an evaluation of a performance of a reference model deployed at an edge node, determining if the evaluation exceeds a threshold associated with the reference model, and incrementing a counter when the evaluation exc...