US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 16 for "Model optimization in infrastructure processing unit (IPU)" (Oregon, New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,362, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Model optimization in infrastructure processing unit (IPU)" was invented by Yamini Nimmagadda (Portland, Ore.), Susanne M. Balle (Hudson, N.H.) and Olugbemisola Oniyinde (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU), including: a model optimization processor configured to optimize an artificial intelligence (AI) model for an accelerator managed by the IPU, and deploy the optimized AI model to the accelerator for execution of an inference; and a local memory configured to store data related to the AI model optimization....