ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,426, issued on June 2, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"System and method for accelerating neural networks" was invented by Dibakar Gope (Austin, Texas), Jesse Garrett Beu (Austin, Texas) and Milos Milosavljevic (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network system, method and apparatus are provided. A truth table matrix, an index vector and an input data tensor are read from a memory. At least a portion of the input data tensor is flattened into an input data vector. A scatter accumulate instruction is executed on the index vector and the input data vector to generate an intermediate vector. The t...