ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,516, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Training neural networks based on dual pipeline architectures" was invented by Mattheus Heddes (Woodinville, Wash.), Torsten Hoefler (Zurich), Kenneth Andrew Colwell (Stevens Pass, Wash.) and Amar Phanishayee (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for training neural networks based on dual pipeline architectures. In some embodiments, a first set of compute elements are configured to implement a first set of layers of a first instance of a neural network. A second set of compu...