ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,113, issued on May 12, was assigned to Natural Intelligence Systems Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Neural processing units (NPUs) and computational systems employing the same" was invented by Harold B Noyes (Boise, Idaho), David Roberts (Meridian, Idaho), Russell Lloyd (Boise, Idaho), William Tiffany (Eagle, Idaho), Jeffery Tanner (Meridian, Idaho), Terrence Leslie (Reva, Va.), Daniel Skinner (Meridian, Idaho) and Indranil Roy (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are integrated circuits (also referred to as "chips") that can be implemented in a neural processing unit. At a high level, the goal of these chips is to provi...