US Patent Issued to MIPS Tech on May 20 for "Neural network data computation using mixed-precision" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,370, issued on May 20, was assigned to MIPS Tech LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Neural network data computation using mixed-precision" was invented by James Hippisley Robinson (New York) and Sanjay Patel (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for mixed-precision data manipulation for neural network data computation are disclosed. A first left group comprising eight bytes of data and a first right group of eight bytes of data are obtained for computation using a processor. A second left group comprising eight bytes of data and a second right group of eight bytes of data are obtained. A sum of products is performed betw...