ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,569, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for performing a machine learning operation using storage element pointers" was invented by Kevin Brady (Newry, Great Britain), Martin Power (Dublin), Martin-Thomas Grymel (Leixlip, Ireland), Alessandro Palla (Pisa, Italy), David Bernard (Kilcullen, Ireland) and Niall Hanrahan (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for performing a machine learning operation using storage element pointers. An example computer readable medium comprises instructions that when exe...