ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,960, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic compression of machine learning models" was invented by De Gao Chu (Beijing), Lin Dong (Beijing), Xiao Tian Xu (Chang De, China) and Xue Yin Zhuang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for compressing a machine learning model includes converting an input machine learning model into a standard machine learning model. The method further includes converting the standard machine learning model into a plurality of pruned machine learning models, each of the pruned machine learning models converted using...