ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,269, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"LSTM circuit with selective input computation" was invented by Ram Krishnamurthy (Portland, Ore.), Gregory K. Chen (Portland, Ore.), Raghavan Kumar (Hillsboro, Ore.), Phil Knag (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Huseyin Ekin Sumbul (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a long short term memory (LSTM) circuit having a multiply accumulate circuit (MAC). The MAC circuit has circuitry to rely on a stored product term rather than explicitly perform a multiplication operation to determine the product term if an accumula...