ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,081, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Vector reduction processor" was invented by Gregory Michael Thorson (Waunakee, Wis.), Andrew Everett Phelps (Middleton, Wis.) and Olivier Temam (Antony, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vector reduction circuit configured to reduce an input vector of elements comprises a plurality of cells, wherein each of the plurality of cells other than a designated first cell that receives a designated first element of the input vector is configured to receive a particular element of the input vector, receive, from another of the one or more cells, a temporary red...