ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,675, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adaptive optimization with improved convergence" was invented by Sashank Jakkam Reddi (Jersey City, N.J.), Sanjiv Kumar (Jericho, N.Y.) and Satyen Chandrakant Kale (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that perform adaptive optimization with improved convergence properties. The adaptive optimization techniques described herein are useful in various optimization scenarios, including, for example, training a machine-learned model such as, for example, a neural network. In particular, accor...