ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,047, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Heterogeneous ML accelerator cluster with flexible system resource balance" was invented by Sheng Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Norman Paul Jouppi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Martin Guy Dixon (Portland, Ore.), Daniel Stodolsky (Cambridge, Mass.), Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Liqun Cheng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Erik Karl Norden (San Jose, Calif.) and Parthasarathy Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a heterogeneous machine learning accelerator system with comp...