ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,555, issued on July 14, was assigned to Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reducing power consumption in compute circuits" was invented by Mark Alan Lovell (Lucas, Texas) and Robert Michael Muchsel (Addison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods increase computational efficiency in machine learning accelerators. In embodiments, this is accomplished by evaluating, partitioning, and selecting computational resources to uniquely process, accumulate, and store data based on the type of the data and configuration parameters that are used to process the data. Various embodiments, ...