US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 23 for "Neural network layer fusion" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,074, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network layer fusion" was invented by Bin Fan (San Jose, Calif.), Evghenii Gaburov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuan Lin (Cupertino, Calif.) and Vinod Grover (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform a neural network. In at least one embodiment, a neural network is performed by at least combining nodes of a graph based, at least in part, on computing resources to perform operations corresponding to the nodes of the graph."

The patent was filed on Jan. 24, 2020, under Application No. 16/752,552. ...