ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,405, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus for matrix processing in a convolutional neural network" was invented by Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, India), Shyam Jagannathan (Bangalore, India), Manu Mathew (Bangalore, India) and Jason T. Jones (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described examples include an integrated circuit including a vector multiply unit including a plurality of multiply/accumulate nodes, in which the vector multiply unit is operable to provide an output from the multiply/accumulate nodes, a first data feeder operable to provide first data to the v...