US Patent Issued to Intel on March 18 for "Apparatuses and methods to accelerate matrix multiplication" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,061, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods to accelerate matrix multiplication" was invented by Maciej Urbanski (Gdansk, Poland), Brian J. Hickmann (Sherwood, Ore.), Michael Rotzin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Krishnakumar Nair (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Brian S. Morris (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Dennis Bradford (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses relating to performing vector multiplication are described. Hardware accelerators to perform vector multiplication are also described. In one embodiment, a combined fixed-poin...