ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,857, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to perform machine-learning model operations on sparse accelerators" was invented by Martin Power (Dublin), Kevin Brady (Newry, Great Britain), Niall Hanrahan (Galway, Ireland), Martin-Thomas Grymel (Leixlip, Ireland), David Bernard (Kilcullen, Ireland) and Gary Baugh (Bray, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to perform machine-learning model operations on sparse accelerators. An example apparatus includes first circuitry, second circuitry to generate sparsity data b...