ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,940, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Preprocessing code using large language models for performance portability" was invented by Nicolas Weber (Heidelberg, Germany), Roberto Bifulco (Heidelberg, Germany), Marc Betzwieser (Heidelberg, Germany) and Yves Ekspenszid (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented, machine learning method for preprocessing code for performance portability includes extracting performance critical code segments from an application and obtaining input data. Ground truth data is generated based on the input data and the application. Original code of the appl...