ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,809, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Abstraction library to enable scalable distributed machine learning" was invented by Dhiraj D. Kalamkar (Bangalore, India), Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan (Bangalore, India), Srinivas Sridharan (Bangalore, India) and Dipankar Das (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides for a non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising providing an interface to define a neural network using machine-learning domain specific termin...