US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 14 for "Systolic array with parallel output rounding" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,693, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systolic array with parallel output rounding" was invented by Nishith Desai (Austin, Texas) and Thomas A Volpe (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to round the numbers produced by a systolic array. A rounder, including a plurality of random number generators, can receive a number from the systolic array. Each random number generator may be associated with a random number sequence and may generate a next random number in the random number sequence based on a state value representing a position within the random numbe...