ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,467, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Merging models on an edge server" was invented by Ganesh Ananthanarayanan (Seattle), Anand Padmanabha Iyer (Redmond, Wash.), Yuanchao Shu (Kirkland, Wash.), Nikolaos Karianakis (Sammamish, Wash.) and Arthi Hema Padmanabhan (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for merging models for use in an edge server under the multi-access edge computing environment. In particular, a model merger selects a layer of a model based on a level of memory consumption in the edge server and determines sharable layers ba...