US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Hardware-assisted gradient optimization using streamed gradients" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,984, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hardware-assisted gradient optimization using streamed gradients" was invented by Jinwen Xi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bharadwaj Pudipeddi (San Jose, Calif.) and Marc Tremblay (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to hardware-assisted gradient optimization using streamed gradients are described. An example method in a system comprising a memory configured to store weights associated with a neural network model comprising L layers, where L is an integer greater than one, a gradient optimizer, and a plurality of w...