ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,256, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Performance of complex optimization tasks with improved efficiency via neural meta-optimization of experts" was invented by Avneesh Sud (Belmont, Calif.), Andrea Tagliasacchi (Toronto) and Ben Usman (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems perform complex optimization tasks with improved efficiency via neural meta-optimization of experts. In particular, provided is a machine learning framework in which a meta-optimization neural network can learn to fuse a collection of experts to provide a predicted solution. Specifically, the meta-optimizatio...