US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for sparse tensor storage for neural network accelerators" (Irish, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,239, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for sparse tensor storage for neural network accelerators" was invented by Martin-Thomas Grymel (Leixlip, Ireland), David Bernard (Kilcullen, Ireland), Niall Hanrahan (Galway, Ireland), Martin Power (Dublin), Kevin Brady (Newry, Great Britain), Gary Baugh (Bray, Ireland) and Cormac Brick (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for sparse tensor storage for neural network accelerators. An example apparatus includes sparsity map generating circuitry to generate a...