ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,215, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Performing machine learning tasks using instruction-tuned neural networks" was invented by Jason Weng Wei (Mountain View, Calif.), Maarten Paul Bosma (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuzhe Zhao Jr. (San Francisco), Kelvin Gu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing a machine learning task on an input to generate an output. In one aspect, one of the method includes receiving input data that describes an inpu...