US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Hardware implementation of an attention-based neural network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,863, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Hardware implementation of an attention-based neural network" was invented by Biswarup Choudhury (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Cagatay Dikici (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for selecting numerical formats suitable for use in configuring a hardware implementation of an attention-based neural network. A dataset of test input sequences for the neural network is obtained. Each test input sequence is padded with padding values. For each padded input sequence, a padding mask i...