ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,688, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Granular neural network architecture search over low-level primitives" was invented by David Richard So (San Francisco), Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hanxiao Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wojciech Andrzej Manke (Zurich, Switzerland), Zihang Dai (Pittsburgh) and Noam M. Shazeer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

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 performing a machine learning task on a network input to generate a network output. One of the systems includes an attention neural netw...