ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,691, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Decomposing a deconvolution into multiple convolutions" was invented by Alessandro Palla (Pisa, Italy), David Thomas Bernard (Kilcullen, Ireland) and Niall Hanrahan (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deconvolution can be decomposed into multiple convolutions. Results of the convolutions constitute an output of the deconvolution. Zeros may be added to an input tensor of the deconvolution to generate an upsampled input tensor. Subtensors having the same size as the kernel of the deconvolution may be identified from the upsampled input tensor. A sub...