US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 14 for "Sparse matrix multiplication in a neural network" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,252, issued on April 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sparse matrix multiplication in a neural network" was invented by Jorge Albericio Latorre (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Chong Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods to enable matrix multiplication acceleration by modifying an input to apply sparsity through sparse activation filtering. In at least one embodiment, a neural network modifies pixels within an image through sparse activation filtering to enable use of one or more matrix multiplication acceleration units to perform a sparse patch embedding operation."

The patent wa...