ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,187, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Planet-scale, fully managed artificial intelligence infrastructure service" was invented by Dharma Kiritkumar Shukla (Bellevue, Wash.), Rimma Vladimirovna Nehme (Bellevue, Wash.), Pankaj Sharma (Redmond, Wash.), Shreshth Singhal (Seattle), Vipul Arunkant Modi (Bellevue, Wash.), Muthian Sivathanu (Chennai, India) and Atul Katiyar (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes managing artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in a cloud infrastructure platform. A set of distributed infrastructure resources are int...