ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,768, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Deep learning acceleration with mixed precision" was invented by Sen Ma (Bellevue, Wash.), Aliasger Tayeb Zaidy (Seattle) and Dustin Werran (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for deep learning acceleration with mixed precision may include a first data port configured to receive a map data segment and a second data port configured to receive a kernel data segment. The device may include a precision mode port configured to receive an indication of an input precision mode that indicates a word length for the map data segment and for the kern...