ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,283, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Accelerating inference of neural network models via dynamic early exits" was invented by Saurabh Manish Raje (Haryana, India), Saurabh Goyal (New Delhi), Anamitra Roy Choudhury (New Delhi), Yogish Sabharwal (Haryana, India) and Ashish Verma (Nanuet, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for accelerating inference of neural network models via dynamic early exits are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining a plurality of candidate exit points of a neural network model; ...