US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 4 for "Low power inference engine pipeline in a graphics processing unit" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,781, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low power inference engine pipeline in a graphics processing unit" was invented by Vidhya Krishnan (Folsom, Calif.), Chien-Wei Li (Portland, Ore.), Ben J. Ashbaugh (Folsom, Calif.), Durgaprasad Bilagi (Folsom, Calif.) and Pattabhiraman K (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising a graphics processor device including a first compute engine and a second compute engine, wherein the second compute engine includes a subset of the functionality provided by the first compute engine and a lower power consumption re...