US Patent Issued to Femtosense on Dec. 16 for "Methods and apparatus for matrix and vector storage and operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,174, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Femtosense Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for matrix and vector storage and operations" was invented by Sam Brian Fok (San Leandro, Calif.), Alexander Smith Neckar (Redwood City, Calif.) and Manish Shrivastava (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for matrix and vector storage and operations are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments include a multicore processor, where each core includes processing hardware, local weights, global weights, working memory, and accumulator. Exemplary embodiments compress sparse neural network data structures based on...