ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,743, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Padding input data for artificial intelligence accelerators" was invented by Cedric Lichtenau (Stuttgart, Germany), Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York), Sunil K Shukla (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Swagath Venkataramani (White Plains, N.Y.), Kailash Gopalakrishnan (New York), Holger Horbach (Aidlingen, Germany), Razvan Peter Figuli (Remchingen, Germany), Wei Wang (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Yulong Li (Hartsdale, N.Y.) and Martin A Lutz (Peekskill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing input data for transmittal to a data consumer such as an art...