US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 31 for "Digital compute hardware for efficient element-wise and cross-vector maximum operations" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,430, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Digital compute hardware for efficient element-wise and cross-vector maximum operations" was invented by Geoffrey Burr (Cupertino, Calif.), Shubham Jain (Elmsford, N.Y.) and Yasuteru Kohda (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for efficient element-wise and cross-vector maximum operations. One example system includes an input bus, an output bus, and a memory configured to store N/K elements of an N-element vector in a corresponding row of the memory. A K-wide FMAX comparator has a first set of K-wide inputs of the K-wide ...