ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,665, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neural architecture search of language models using knowledge distillation" was invented by Michele Merler (New York City, N.Y.), Aashka Trivedi (Cedar Park, Texas), Rameswar Panda (Medford, Mass.), Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Taesun Moon (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Avirup Sil (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural architecture search method, system, and computer program product that determines, by a computing device, a best fit language model of a plurality of language models that is a best fit fo...