US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 30 for "General padding support for convolution on systolic arrays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,546, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"General padding support for convolution on systolic arrays" was invented by David Alexander Majnemer (Mountain View, Calif.), Blake Alan Hechtman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bjarke Hammersholt Roune (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a request to perform convolutional computations for a neural network on a hardware circuit having a matrix computation unit, the request specifying the convolutiona...