ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,261, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Just-in-time re-partitioning of feature maps for efficient balancing of compute core workloads" was invented by Kiran Kumar Gunnam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vikram Varadarajan Kalkunte (Pleasanton, Calif.), Matheus Almeida Ogleari (San Jose, Calif.), Anand Kulkarni (San Jose, Calif.) and Zvonimir Z. Bandic (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for partitioning feature maps to improve machine learning model processing. In one aspect, a method, includes partitioning a feature map ro...