ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,196, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Smart online link repair and job scheduling in machine learning supercomputers" was invented by Yazhou Zu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alireza Ghaffarkhah (San Jose, Calif.) and Dayou Du (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach for smart topology-aware link disabling and user job rescheduling strategies for online network repair of broken links in high performance networks used in supercomputers that are common in Machine Learning (ML) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications. While a disabled link is repair...