ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,723, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Learned graph optimizations for compilers" was invented by Yanqi Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sudip Roy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amirali Abdolrashidi (Riverside, Calif.), Daniel Lin-Kit Wong (Pittsburgh), Chao Ma (Mountain View, Calif.), Qiumin Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hanxiao Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana (Mountain View, Calif.), Shen Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anna Darling Goldie (San Francisco), Azalia Mirhoseini (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Laudon (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, incl...