US Patent Issued to Maxim Integrated Products on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for performing in-flight computations" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,344, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing in-flight computations" was invented by Mark Alan Lovell (Wilmington, Mass.) and Robert Michael Muchsel (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In-flight operations in an inbound data path from a source memory to a convolution hardware circuit increase computational throughput when performing convolution calculations, such as pooling and element-wise operations. Various operations may be performed in-line within an outbound data path to a target memory. Advantageously, this drastically reduces extra...