US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 8 for "Asynchronous accumulator using logarithmic-based arithmetic" (Nevada, Texas, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,019, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Asynchronous accumulator using logarithmic-based arithmetic" was invented by William James Dally (Incline Village, Nev.), Rangharajan Venkatesan (San Jose, Calif.), Brucek Kurdo Khailany (Austin, Texas) and Stephen G. Tell (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural networks, in many cases, include convolution layers that are configured to perform many convolution operations that require multiplication and addition operations. Compared with performing multiplication on integer, fixed-point, or floating-point format values, performing multiplicat...