US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 15 for "Hyper-rectangle network for gradient exchange" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,495, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Hyper-rectangle network for gradient exchange" was invented by Thiam Khean Hah (San Jose, Calif.) and Yongseok Koh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to perform gradient exchange among processing nodes configured as a hyper-rectangle network of N-dimensions. Each processing node can operate as a collective parameter server node capable to perform collective compute operations. For each dimension in a sequence of dimensions, all processing nodes on a same edge can perform a scatter-reduce operation using respect...