ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,282, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Inference with inline real-time ML models in applications" was invented by Xenofon Foukas (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Bozidar Radunovic (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for using codelets executing within applications to use machine-learning (ML) models to infer a result based on application data. The codelets may be dynamically loaded into the applications during execution. A controller verifies, based on extended Berkeley packet filter (eBPF) bytecode of the codelet, that the codelet satisf...