ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,947, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Modifying computational graphs" was invented by Vijay Vasudevan (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Jeffrey Adgate Dean (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sanjay Ghemawat (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for modifying a computational graph to include send and receive nodes. Communication between unique devices performing operations of different subgraphs of the computational graph can be handled efficiently by inserting send and receive nodes into each subgraph...