ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,860, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MatX Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Acyclic architecture for AI processors" was invented by Reiner A. Pope (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michial A. Gunter (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AI-accelerating processor system may include an acyclic subset of hardware processing nodes. The acyclic subset includes a plurality of end nodes that are disconnected from other end nodes in the acyclic subset. The acyclic subset of hardware processing nodes is configured to perform, according to schedules, computations that are part of a collective operation. A first hardware processing node in the s...