US Patent Issued to Altera on Aug. 11 for "Integrated circuits with machine learning extensions" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,023, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Integrated circuits with machine learning extensions" was invented by Martin Langhammer (Alderbury, Great Britain), Dongdong Chen (Union City, Calif.) and Kevin Hurd (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit with specialized processing blocks is provided. A specialized processing block may be optimized for machine learning algorithms and may include a multiplier data path that feeds an adder data path. The multiplier data path may be decomposed into multiple partial product generators, multiple compressors, and multiple carry-pro...