ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,236, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Machine learning model replacement on edge devices" was invented by Chao Zhou (Fremont, Calif.), Maxwell Edward Chapman Nuyens (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ravish Hastantram (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for machine learning prediction using edge devices are described. In some examples a method of use includes receiving a request to load a second model onto an edge device while a first model has already been loaded on the edge device, wherein the second model and the first model share an external handle; loading at least one inst...