US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on March 18 for "Sparse matrix operations using processing-in-memory" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,195, issued on March 18, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sparse matrix operations using processing-in-memory" was invented by Matthew R Poremba (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sparse matrix operations using processing-in-memory is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a processing-in-memory component of a memory module receives a request for a vector element stored at a first location in memory of the memory module. The processing-in-memory component identifies an index value for a non-zero element in a sparse matrix using a representation of the sparse matrix stored at a...