ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,232, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Batch statistics acceleration" was invented by Paul Gilbert Meyer (Jericho, Vt.), Sundeep Amirineni (Cedar Park, Texas) and Ron Diamant (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique to compute statistics of data elements include serially inputting the data elements into a compute channel. The compute channel can generate a first running mean and a first running variance associated with data elements of the vector having odd sequence indices, and a second running mean and a second running variance associated with data elements of the vector hav...