ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,784, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tie-breaker for inference reproducibility" was invented by Duncan Andrew Riach (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Alvin Ihsani (Everett, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to deterministically classify data. In at least one embodiment, inference classes with weights within a threshold range are treated as equivalent and one representative inference class is selected."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2019, under Application No. 16/720,348.

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