ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,293, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Machine learning model repository management and search engine" was invented by Yaniv Gur (San Jose, Calif.) and Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided to implement a machine learning framework that operates to register a plurality of machine learning algorithms used to train machine learning models to perform related tasks, and to index the machine learning algorithms to generate and store a machine learning algorithm metadata model for each machine learning algorithm. The machine...