ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,465, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo) and VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON (Wellington, New Zealand).

"Scalable partially shared multi-task neural network system, method, and program" was invented by Kenta Niwa (Tokyo) and Willem Bastiaan Kleijn (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for achieving a scalable DNN and a multi-task DNN, for example, are provided. A neural network system is a neural network system including a plurality of models. Each one of the plurality of models is a DNN including a plurality of layers. Some or all of the plurality of models include at least one layer fo...