US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 25 for "Single function to perform combined matrix multiplication and bias add operations" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,338, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Single function to perform combined matrix multiplication and bias add operations" was invented by Cedric Lichtenau (Stuttgart, Germany), Kailash Gopalakrishnan (New York), Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York), Sunil K. Shukla (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Swagath Venkataramani (Yonkers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined function specified by an instruction is performed. The combined function includes a plurality of operations performed as part of one invocation of the combined function. The performing the combined function includes per...