US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Hierarchical programming model for artificial intelligence hardware" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,225, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hierarchical programming model for artificial intelligence hardware" was invented by Haishan Zhu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Eric S. Chung (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a set of lower-level control threads. The system also includes a higher-level control thread configured to receive a command from a device, generate a set of commands based on the command, and provide the set of commands to a subset of the set of lower-level control threads. A lower-level control thread in the subset of the set of lower-leve...