ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,457, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Generate program directives using beam search guided by neural network cost model" was invented by Wei-Liang Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ming-Yu Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system generates directives of a program. Beam nodes are selected one level at a time from multiple nodes in the tree structure. Each node represents a subset of operations in the program. A first number of the beam nodes are selected at a given level of the tree structure. The selection of the first number of the beam nodes uses a cost model that is based ...