ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,369, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Central scheduler and instruction dispatcher for a neural inference processor" was invented by Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, Calif.), Myron D. Flickner (San Jose, Calif.), Pallab Datta (San Jose, Calif.), Hartmut Penner (San Jose, Calif.), Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas), John V. Arthur (Mountain View, Calif.), Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.), Steven K. Esser (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Taba (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jennifer Klamo (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural inference proc...