ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,276, issued on May 6, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Neural architecture search with factorized hierarchical search space" was invented by Mingxing Tan (Newark, Calif.), Quoc Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bo Chen (Pasadena, Calif.), Vijay Vasudevan (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Ruoming Pang (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an automated neural architecture search approach for designing new neural network architectures such as, for example, resource-constrained mobile CNN models. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods to perform neural architectur...