US Patent Issued to Altera on June 24 for "FPGA specialist processing block for machine learning" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,219, issued on June 24, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"FPGA specialist processing block for machine learning" was invented by Martin Langhammer (Alderbury, Great Britain), Dongdong Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Jason R. Bergendahl (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a digital signal processing (DSP) block that includes a plurality of columns of weight registers and a plurality of inputs configured to receive a first plurality of values and a second plurality of values. The first plurality of values is stored in the plurality of columns of weight registers after being rec...