ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,496, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Batch processing in a neural network processor" was invented by Reginald Clifford Young (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a respective neural network output for each of a plurality of inputs, the method comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving a plurality of inputs to be processed at the neural network layer; forming one or more batches of inputs from the plurality of inputs, each batch having a number of inputs u...