ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,916, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method to avoid memory bank conflicts and pipeline conflicts in tensor memory layout" was invented by Anna Bulanova (Markham, Canada), Jessica Davies (Markham, Canada) and Xiong Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing a layout of a tensor memory defines at least one hard constraint for allocating a plurality of input/output (I/O) vectors for reading and writing data for a task in the tensor memory. The at least one hard constraint is applied to determine one or more potential conflicts between the plurality of...