US Patent Issued to GDM Holding on June 30 for "Distributed top k computation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,086, issued on June 30, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Distributed top k computation" was invented by Erich Konrad Elsen (Naperville, Ill.) and Stuart Christopher Benedict Abercrombie (Huntingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for distributing a top k computation across multiple computing units of an integrated circuit One of the methods includes computing, by each of the plurality of computing units and for each candidate vector in a respective subset of the candidate vectors assigned to the compu...