ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,219, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deep neural networks (DNN) inference using practical early exit networks" was invented by Anand Padmanabha Iyer (Redmond, Wash.) and Swapnil Sunilkumar Gandhi (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing inferences using machine learning systems. The methods and systems receive a load forecast for processing requests by a machine learning model and split the machine learning model into a plurality machine learning model portions based on the load forecast. The methods an...