US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 30 for "Hardware accelerator with configurable tensor operation pipeline" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,123, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hardware accelerator with configurable tensor operation pipeline" was invented by Ashraf Ayman Michail (Kirkland, Wash.), Li Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Nitin Naresh Garegrat (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Craig Savell (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware accelerator is disclosed that can flexibly be configured to support differing data types and differing operation flows. The hardware accelerator includes a plurality of fixed tensor operation logic units, tensor operation pipeline logic configured to receive from the p...