ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,667, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamically selecting artificial intelligence models and hardware environments to execute tasks" was invented by Ashok Pancily Poothiyot (San Francisco), Ali Zafar (Fremont, Calif.), Anthony Penta (Bellevue, Wash.), Stephen Voorhees (Alamo, Calif.), Tim Gasser (Austin, Texas), Tsung-Hsiang Chang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Geoff Hulten (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for selecting machine-learning models and hardware environments for executing a task. In partic...