ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,546, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processing tensors" was invented by Julian Heyne (Stuttgart, Germany), Razvan Peter Figuli (Remchingen, Germany), Cedric Lichtenau (Stuttgart, Germany) and Holger Horbach (Aidlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of accessing a n-dimensional tensor of elements in a memory by a computer system. The multidimensional tensor comprises two-dimensional arrays, herein referred to as pages, each page being configured to comprise a predefined number of one-dimensional arrays of elements, herein ref...