ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,470, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for distributing layers of special mixture-of-experts machine learning models" was invented by Devangkumar Rameshbhai Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Wei Zuo (Campbell, Calif.) and Yuan Yu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed embodiments are directed to computing systems having different accelerators such that a first set of accelerators has a greater memory capability than a second set accelerators, while the second set of accelerators has a greater processing capability than the first set of accel...