US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 28 for "Scratchpad tensor allocation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,296, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Scratchpad tensor allocation" was invented by Hongbin Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Parivallal Kannan (San Jose, Calif.) and Yunxuan Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique to perform memory allocation can include obtaining an interference graph of tensors of a neural network model to store in a buffer memory, and determining a set of directed edges and a set of undecided edges in the interference graph. A directed interference graph can be formed from the set of directed edges, and constraints based on the directed interference graph an...