ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,582, issued on May 26, was assigned to Expedera Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for using a packet architecture to process neural networks in a neural processing unit" was invented by Sharad Vasantrao Chole (San Jose, Calif.), Shang-Tse Chuang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Siyad Chih-Hua Ma (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial intelligence is an increasingly important sector of the computer industry. However, artificial intelligence is an extremely computationally intensive field such that it can be expensive, time consuming, and energy consuming field. Fortunately, many of the calculations required...