ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,867, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Graphics architecture including a neural network pipeline" was invented by Hugues Labbe (Granite Bay, Calif.), Darrel Palke (Portland, Ore.), Sherine Abdelhak (Beaverton, Ore.), Jill Boyce (Portland, Ore.), Varghese George (Folsom, Calif.), Scott Janus (Loomis, Calif.), Adam Lake (Portland, Ore.), Zhijun Lei (Hillsboro, Ore.), Zhengmin Li (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mike MacPherson (Portland, Ore.), Carl Marshall (Portland, Ore.), Selvakumar Panneer (Portland, Ore.), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Karthik Veeramani (Hillsboro, Ore.), Deepak Vembar (Portland, Ore.) and Vallabhajosyula Srinivasa Somayazulu (Por...