US Patent Issued to Intel on April 29 for "Systems and methods of instructions to accelerate multiplication of sparse matrices using bitmasks that identify non-zero elements" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,843, issued on April 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of instructions to accelerate multiplication of sparse matrices using bitmasks that identify non-zero elements" was invented by Dan Baum (Haifa, Israel), Chen Koren (Hadera, Israel), Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (Chandler, Ariz.), Michael Espig (Newberg, Ore.), Christopher J. Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.), Raanan Sade (Kibutz Sarid, Israel), Robert Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Mark J. Charney (Lexington, Mass.) and Alexander F. Heinecke (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to accelerating multipl...