US Patent Issued to Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing), Baidu USA on Jan. 20 for "Hardware adaptive multi-model scheduling" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,881, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Baidu USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hardware adaptive multi-model scheduling" was invented by Haofeng Kou (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xing Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Huimeng Zheng (Beijing), Lei Wang (Beijing) and Zhen Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modem deep neural network (DNN) models have many layers with a single layer potentially involving large matrix multiplications. Such heavy calculation brings challenges to deploy such DNN models on a single edge device, which has relatively limited computation resources. Therefore, mu...