ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,478, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training distilled machine learning models" was invented by Oriol Vinyals (London), Jeffrey Adgate Dean (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a distilled machine learning model. One of the methods includes training a cumbersome machine learning model, wherein the cumbersome machine learning model is configured to receive an input and generate a respective score for each of a plurality of classes; and traini...