ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,685, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systolic array having support for output sparsity" was invented by Jorge Parra (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Fangwen Fu (Folsom, Calif.), Subramaniam Maiyuran (Gold River, Calif.), Varghese George (Folsom, Calif.), Mike Macpherson (Portland, Ore.), Supratim Pal (Folsom, Calif.), Chandra Gurram (Folsom, Calif.), Sabareesh Ganapathy (Bangalore, India), Sasikanth Avancha (Kolar District, India), Dharma Teja Vooturi (Jagtial, India), Naveen Mellempudi (Bangalore, India) and Dipankar Das (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus is described ...