US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on March 3 for "Computation unit, related apparatus, and method" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,948, issued on March 3, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Computation unit, related apparatus, and method" was invented by Yijin Guan (Beijing), Fei Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Junwen Luo (Shanghai), Haoran Li (Shanghai), Bangyan Wang (Shanghai), Tianchan Guan (Shanghai) and Yawen Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a computation unit, a related apparatus, and a method. The computation unit includes: a weight buffer adapted to store a row vector fetched from an MxKAlpha sparsified weight matrix, where M and K are respectively a number of rows and a number of c...