US Patent Issued to OpenAI OpCo on Oct. 6 for "Floating point multiplications" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,971, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to OpenAI OpCo LLC (San Francisco).

"Floating point multiplications" was invented by Cagla Cakir (San Francisco), Burak Erbagci (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Almela Conklin (San Jose, Calif.), Tracey DellaRova (Wake Forest, N.C.), Mohammed Elneanaei Abdelmoneem Fouda (Irvine, Calif.) and Jean-Didier Allegrucci (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for improved matrix-vector operations in accelerators that may be useful or heavy AI training and inference workloads. The disclosed technology provides arrangements that permit more efficient com...