US Patent Issued to Arm on Oct. 20 for "Matrix multiply accelerator for variable bitwidth operands" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,805, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Matrix multiply accelerator for variable bitwidth operands" was invented by Zhi-Gang Liu (Westford, Mass.), Paul Nicholas Whatmough (Cambridge, Mass.), Matthew Mattina (Boylston, Mass.) and John Fremont Brown III (Marion, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for multiplying first and second matrices are provided. For the first matrix, a number of bit slice vectors for each row are generated based on the bit resolution, and a first bit slice tensor is generated based on the bit slice vectors for each row. For the second matrix, a number o...