ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,058, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hybrid neural network architecture within cascading pipelines" was invented by Wind Yuan (Shanghai), Kaustubh Purandare (San Jose, Calif.), Bhushan Rupde (Pune, India), Shaunak Gupte (Dombivli, India) and Farzin Aghdasi (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-stage multimedia inferencing pipeline may be set up and executed using configuration data including information used to set up each stage by deploying the specified or desired models and/or other pipeline components into a repository (e.g., a shared folder in a repository). The co...