ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,480, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"In-flight scaling of machine learning training jobs" was invented by Edo Liberty (New York), Thomas Albert Faulhaber Jr. (Seattle), Zohar Karnin (Hoboken, N.J.), Gowda Dayananda Anjaneyapura Range (Redmond, Wash.), Amir Sadoughi (New York), Swaminathan Sivasubramanian (Sammamish, Wash.), Alexander Johannes Smola (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stefano Stefani (Issaquah, Wash.) and Craig Wiley (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for in-flight scaling of machine learning training jobs are described. A request to execute a machine learning (ML) train...