ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,412, issued on March 31, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Vector engine for efficient beam search" was invented by Paul Gilbert Meyer (Jericho, Vt.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide native hardware support for complex operations such as a beam search operation, an integrated circuit device can be implemented with multiple computational circuit blocks coupled in series to form a pipeline. Each computational circuit block includes an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) circuit having a first numeric input, a second numeric input, a primary result output, and a secondary output. The ALU circuit is programmable to pe...