ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,190, issued on June 24, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Tensor checkpoint optimization in dataflow computing applications" was invented by Bowen Yang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhuo Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Fei Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Venkat Krishna Srinivasan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chen Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Junjue Wang (Newark, Calif.), Arvind Krishna Sujeeth (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sumti Jairath (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a computing method a compiler determines a recompute node included in a dataflow application and a checkpoint tensor produced by the recompute node. ...