ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,796, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Bayesian compute unit with reconfigurable sampler and methods and apparatus to operate the same" was invented by Srivatsa Rangachar Srinivasa (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tanay Karnik (Portland, Ore.), Dileep Kurian (Portland, Ore.), Ranganath Krishnan (Hillsboro, Ore.), Jainaveen Sundaram Priya (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Indranil Chakraborty (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture providing a Bayesian compute unit with reconfigurable sampler and methods and apparatus to operate the same are disclosed. An...