ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,556, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BAIDU USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Scheduling ML services and models with heterogeneous resources" was invented by Haofeng Kou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Davy Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Manjiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xing Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lei Wang (Beijing), Huimeng Zheng (Beijing), Zhen Chen (Beijing) and Ruichang Cheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system determines a timing matrix corresponding to inference times taken for a number of machine learning (ML) models to be executed by a number of processing resources ...