US Patent Issued to Technion Research and Development Foundation on Aug. 12 for "Non-blocking simultaneous multithreading (NB-SMT)" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,683, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Non-blocking simultaneous multithreading (NB-SMT)" was invented by Gil Shomron (Got Levin, Israel) and Uri Weiser (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for non-blocking multithreading, the method may include (a) providing, during a deep neural network (DNN) calculation iteration, to a shared computational resource, input information units related to multiple DNN threads; (b) determining whether to reduce a numerical precision of one or more DNN calculations related to at least one of the multiple DNN threads...