US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 20 for "Neural network processing with chained instructions" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,355, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Neural network processing with chained instructions" was invented by Jeremy Fowers (Seattle), Eric S. Chung (Woodinville, Wash.) and Douglas C. Burger (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hardware and methods for neural network processing are provided. A method in a hardware node including a pipeline having a matrix vector unit (MVU), a first multifunction unit connected to receive an input from the matrix vector unit, a second multifunction unit connected to receive an output from the first multifunction unit, and a third multifun...