US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on March 4 for "Compressing instructions for machine-learning accelerators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,854, issued on March 4, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Compressing instructions for machine-learning accelerators" was invented by Kyong Ho Lee (Los Altos, Calif.), Miguel Angel Guerrero (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Varun Agarwal (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method for accessing an instruction that is to be executed by a control agent within a computing system may include decompressing the instruction by replacing each of one or more zero-symbol run-length fields in the instruction with as many continuous zero symbols as its corresponding value and removing one or more...