ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,928, issued on April 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Movement of tensor data during reshape operation" was invented by Arun Chauhan (Belmont, Calif.), Fatih Mehmet Bakir (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dong Hyuk Woo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a reshape operation specified in a reshape layer of a neural network model is described. The reshape operation reshapes an input tensor with an input tensor shape to an output tensor with an output tensor shape. The tensor data that has to be reshaped is directly routed betwe...