US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 26 for "Approximate k nearest neighbors on hardware accelerators" (New York, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,879, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Approximate k nearest neighbors on hardware accelerators" was invented by Felix Ren-Chyan Chern (New York), Blake Alan Hechtman (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Thomas Davis (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ruiqi Guo (Jersey City, N.J.), Sanjiv Kumar (Jericho, N.Y.) and David Alexander Majnemer (Mountain View, 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 performing a kNN computation using a hardware accelerator. One of the methods includes obtaining a set of one or more query ve...