US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 20 for "Hardware for parallel layer-norm compute" (American, Japanese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,806, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hardware for parallel layer-norm compute" was invented by Geoffrey Burr (Ossining, N.Y.), Shubham Jain (Elmsford, N.Y.), Yasuteru Kohda (Yamato, Japan) and Milos Stanisavljevic (Langnau am Albis, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing layer normalization are described. A circuit can receive a sequence of input data across a plurality of clock cycles, where the sequence of input data represents a portion of an input vector. The circuit can determine a plurality of sums and a plurality of sums of squares...