ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,119, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Clustering of machine learning (ML) functional components" was invented by Maxim V. Kazakov (San Diego), Milind N. Nemlekar (San Diego), Swapnil Sakharshete (San Diego) and Vineet Goel (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing unit (GPU) for clustering of machine learning (ML) functional components, including: a plurality of compute units; a plurality of ML clusters, wherein each of the ML clusters comprises at least one arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and wherein each of the ML clusters is associated with a respective subs...