ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,507, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Reducing power consumption in integrated circuits" was invented by Paul Gilbert Meyer (Jericho, Vt.), Sundeep Amirineni (Cedar Park, Texas) and Ron Diamant (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for replacing input values being loaded into a computational circuit are described. Small input values such as denormal numbers can be replaced with alternative values such as zeros to reduce switching activity in the computational circuit, and thus reduce power consumption. In applications such as most neural networks, the impact on the predicti...