ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,362, issued on May 20, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Batch processing in a machine learning computer" was invented by Godfrey Da Costa (Bristol, Great Britain) and Carlo Luschi (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing batches of data in a computer comprising a plurality of pipelined stages each providing one or more layers of a machine learning model. The method comprises: processing a first batch of data in the pipeline processing stages, each layer of the model using an activation function and weights for that layer to generate an output activation, wherein an output l...