ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,111, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Artificial intelligence inference architecture with hardware acceleration" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain) and Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods of artificial intelligence (AI) processing using hardware acceleration within edge computing settings are described herein. In an example, processing performed at an edge computing device includes: obtaining a request for an AI operation using an AI model; identifying, based on the request, an AI hardware platform for execution of an insta...