US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 7 for "Multipurpose multiply-accumulator array" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,528, issued on April 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multipurpose multiply-accumulator array" was invented by Karthikeyan Avudaiyappan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jeffrey A. Andrews (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include a multipurpose multiply-accumulator (MAC) array circuit comprising one or more input memories for receiving operands and a plurality of multiply-accumulator circuits each selectively coupled to the one or more input memories to receive at least a pair of operands and generate a result. Each of the plurality of multiply-accum...