ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,718, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Hardware acceleration of affine transformations" was invented by Ephrem Wu (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples herein describe a hardware accelerator for affine transformations (matrix multiplications followed by additions) using an outer products process. In general, the hardware accelerator reduces memory bandwidth by computing matrix multiplications as a sum of outer products. Moreover, the sum of outer products benefits parallel hardware that accelerates matrix multiplication, and is compatible with both scalar and block affine transfo...