ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,134, issued on May 12, was assigned to SqueezeBits Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for lightweighting of artificial intelligence model" was invented by Eunhyeok Park (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea), Taesu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Changhun Lee (Busan, South Korea), Hyungjun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungyu Jin (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for lightweighting of artificial intelligence models, and the method of lightweighting of artificial intelligence models includes identifying an outlier in an input vector of a layer, identifying ...