ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,603, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-agent inference" was invented by Li Cao (Beijing), Yi Shan Jiang (Beijing), Ze Ming Zhao (Beijing) and Hong Bo Peng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes determining, by a master node, model update information at least based on a workload related to a task and a resource capacity of a computing environment. The model update information indicates respective model update suggestions for a plurality of inference models configured to perform the task. The method further includes distributing, by ...