US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 20 for "Partitioning and placement of models of models at a network edge" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,294, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Partitioning and placement of models of models at a network edge" was invented by Leo Marche (Le Pin, France), Thomas Michel-Ange Feltin (Paris), Andre Surcouf (Val d'Oise, France) and Frank Brockners (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms are described for enabling a user to run heavy deep learning workloads on standard edge networks without off-loading computation to a cloud, leveraging the available edge computing resources, and efficiently partitioning and distributing a Deep Neural Network (DNN) over a network. T...