ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,899, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Device placement optimization with reinforcement learning" was invented by Samuel Bengio (Los Altos, Calif.), Mohammad Norouzi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Benoit Steiner (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeffrey Adgate Dean (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hieu Hy Pham (Redwood City, Calif.), Azalia Mirhoseini (Mountain View, Calif.), Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Naveen Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Yuefeng Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rasmus Munk Larsen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a placement for machine learning model operations across m...