ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,725, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Non-rectangular matrix computations and data pattern processing using tensor cores" was invented by Aniket Shivam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew Kerr (Santa Clara, Calif.), Haicheng Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Manish Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nikita Shustrov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qing Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alan Kaatz (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Aditya Avinash Atluri (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Matrix multiplication operations can be implemented, at least in part, on one or more tensor cores of a parallel processing unit. An efficien...