ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,068, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Reduced dot product computation circuit" was invented by Kenneth Duong (San Jose, Calif.), Jung Ko (San Jose, Calif.) and Steven L. Teig (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide an IC for implementing a machine-trained network with multiple layers. The IC includes a set of circuits to compute a dot product of (i) a first number of input values computed by other circuits of the IC and (ii) a set of predefined weight values, several of which are zero, with a weight value for each of the input values. The set of circuits includ...