ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,902, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hardware acceleration for computing eigenpairs of a matrix" was invented by Tomasz J. Nowicki (Fort Montgomery, N.Y.), Oguzhan Murat Onen (Boston), Tayfun Gokmen (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Vasileios Kalantzis (White Plains, N.Y.), Chai Wah Wu (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Mark S. Squillante (Greenwich, Conn.), Malte Johannes Rasch (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Wilfried Haensch (Somers, N.Y.) and Lior Horesh (North Salem, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided to implement hardware accelerated computing of eigenpairs of a matrix. For ex...