INTERNATIONAL PATENT: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC FILES APPLICATION FOR "COMMUNICATION EFFICIENT SELF-ATTENTION MECHANISM"

GENEVA, May 5 -- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC (One Microsoft WayRedmond, Washington 98052) filed a patent application (PCT/US2025/037490) for "COMMUNICATION EFFICIENT SELF-ATTENTION MECHANISM" on Jul 14, 2025. With publication no. WO/2026/089795, the details related to the patent application was published on Apr 30, 2026.

Notably, the patent application was submitted under the International Patent Classification (IPC) system, which is managed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Inventor(s): ELANGO, Venmugil (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCOne Microsoft WayRedmond, Washington 98052)

Abstract: A service computes a self-attention of a long sequence transformer. The computation is two-dimensional, with a first ...