ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,992, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing a machine-learned model with adjustable computational demand" was invented by Abhanshu Sharma (Zurich), Alexander Mordvintsev (Langnau am Albis, Switzerland) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is disclosed that includes at least one processor and a machine-learned model. The machine-learned model can include a plurality of blocks and one or more residual connections between two or more of the plurality of blocks. The machine-learned model can be configured to receive a...