ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,455, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Mixture-of-experts layer with switchable parallel modes" was invented by Yifan Xiong (Beijing), Changho Hwang (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Wei Cui (Beijing), Ziyue Yang (Beijing), Ze Liu (Beijing), Han Hu (Beijing), Zilong Wang (Beijing), Rafael Omar Salas (Tega Cay, S.C.), Jithin Jose (Austin, Texas), Prabhat Ram (Los Altos, Calif.), Ho-Yuen Chau (Redmond, Wash.), Peng Cheng (Beijing), Fan Yang (Beijing), Mao Yang (Beijing) and Yongqiang Xiong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is provided, including a plurality of pr...