ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,700, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processing a subset of a feature set to determine whether to process a query request on a local artificial intelligence engine or a remote artificial intelligence engine" was invented by Omri Soceanu (Haifa, Israel), Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Subhankar Pal (White Plains, N.Y.), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.), Augusto Vega (Poway, Calif.), Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Karthik V. Swaminathan (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) and Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program produ...