US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 30 for "Systems and methods for sparse convolution of unstructured data" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,609, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for sparse convolution of unstructured data" was invented by Ran Cheng (Shanghai), Ryan Razani (Toronto), Yuan Ren (Thornhill, Canada) and Bingbing Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for processing sparse tensors using a trained neural network model. An input sparse tensor may represent a sparse input point cloud. The input sparse tensor is processed using an encoder stage having a series of one or more encoder blocks, wherein each encoder block includes a sparse convolution layer, a...