US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Fusing operators for neural network hardware accelerators" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,344, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Fusing operators for neural network hardware accelerators" was invented by Jinwen Xi (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Eric S Chung (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for fusing operators for neural network hardware accelerators. A plurality of vector multiplication operations in a data path of a mapping function included in a neural network are identified. The plurality of vector multiplication operations are combined into a single vector multiplication operation in the...