US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 3 for "Generalized acceleration of matrix multiply accumulate operations" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,743, issued on June 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generalized acceleration of matrix multiply accumulate operations" was invented by Brent Ralph Boswell (Aloha, Ore.), Ming Y. Siu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jack H. Choquette (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jonah M. Alben (San Jose, Calif.) and Stuart Oberman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer readable medium, and processor are disclosed for performing matrix multiply and accumulate (MMA) operations. The processor includes a datapath configured to execute the MMA operation to generate a plurality of elements of a result matrix at an output o...