US Patent Issued to Arm on May 19 for "Nibble block format" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,509, issued on May 19, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Nibble block format" was invented by Paul Nicholas Whatmough (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhi-Gang Liu (Westford, Mass.) and Matthew Mattina (Boylston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A matrix multiplication system and method are provided. The system includes a memory that stores one or more weight tensors, a processor and a matrix multiply accelerator (MMA). The processor converts each weight tensor into an encoded block set that is stored in the memory. Each encoded block set includes a number of encoded blocks, and each encoded block includes a data field and ...