ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,153, issued on April 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Schedule-aware tensor distribution module" was invented by Gautham Chinya (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Huichu Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arnab Raha (San Jose, Calif.), Debabrata Mohapatra (San Jose, Calif.), Cormac Brick (San Francisco) and Lance Hacking (Spanish Fork, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems include a neural network system that includes a neural network accelerator. The neural network accelerator includes multiple processing engines coupled together to perform arithmetic operations in support of an inference performed using the deep n...