ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,875, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to partition neural networks for execution at distributed edge nodes" was invented by Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.) and Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to partition neural network models for executing at distributed Edge nodes. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to perform at least one of first, second, or third operations to instantiate power consumption estimation circuitry to estimate a ...