ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,150, issued on March 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hybrid and hierarchical multi-trial and OneShot neural architecture search on datacenter machine learning accelerators" was invented by Sheng Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Garrett Axel Andersen (Austin, Texas), Norman Paul Jouppi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Liqun Cheng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Parthasarathy Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.), Julian Paul Grady (Pittsburgh), Yang Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), Martin Wicke (San Francisco), Yifeng Lu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yun Ni (San Mateo, Calif.) and Kun Wang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A...