ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,329, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Boston).

"Architecting an integrated circuit or system using machine learning" was invented by Darius Bunandar (Boston) and Nicholas C. Harris (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for designing a chip configured to perform computing processes are provided. The described techniques include obtaining information associated with the chip and determining, using a trained machine learning model and the information associated with the chip, selections of one or more circuit building blocks to be included in the chip. The chip architecture may then be generate...