ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,379, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"In situ sparse matrix expansion" was invented by Reginald Clifford Young (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Trevor John Gale (San Francisco).
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 loading a matrix into a circuit having an array having MxN cells. One of the methods includes: receiving a plurality of non-zero input values from a first input matrix; receiving index metadata that indicates, for each non-zero input value in the plurality of input values, which cell of the MxN cells ...