US Patent Issued to GRAPHCORE on Feb. 24 for "Parallel processing of a Softmax operation by dividing an input vector into a plurality of fragments" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,114, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Parallel processing of a Softmax operation by dividing an input vector into a plurality of fragments" was invented by Carlo Luschi (Oxford, Great Britain), Godfrey Da Costa (Bristol, Great Britain) and Badreddine Noune (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer comprising a plurality of processing units, each processing unit having an execution unit and access to computer memory which stores code executable by the execution unit and input values of an input vector to be processed by the code, the code, when executed, configured to...