US Patent Issued to MIPS Tech on June 10 for "Neural network processing using specialized data representation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,170, issued on June 10, was assigned to MIPS Tech LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Neural network processing using specialized data representation" was invented by Sanjay Patel (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for neural network processing using specialized data representation are disclosed. Input data for manipulation in a layer of a neural network is obtained. The input data includes image data, where the image data is represented in bfloat16 format without loss of precision. The manipulation of the input data is performed on a processor that supports single-precision operations. The input data is converted to a...