ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,075, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Reducing power consumption by hardware accelerator during generation and transmission of machine learning inferences" was invented by Jack Liu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Dong Hyuk Woo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware accelerator can receive, from a host processor, a slice of input data at a time-step. The hardware accelerator can process the input data using a machine learning model deployed on the hardware accelerator to compute a respective probability among multiple probabilities for each of multiple classes. The respective probabilit...