US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Methods and systems for performing a sparse submanifold convolution on a GPU" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,211, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Methods and systems for performing a sparse submanifold convolution on a GPU" was invented by Gunduz Vehbi Demirci (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Cagatay Dikici (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Grant Michael Stevens (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Le Yang (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of implementing a sparse submanifold convolution on a graphics processing unit. The methods include: receiving, at the graphics processing unit, an input tensor in a dense format; identifying, at the graphics p...