ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,439, issued on April 21, was assigned to OpenAl Opco LLC (San Francisco).

"System and method of transposed matrix-vector multiplication" was invented by Mohammed Elneanaei Abdelmoneem Fouda (Irvine, Calif.) and Ramyad Hadidi (University Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a memory and hardware compute logic is described. The memory includes memory cells storing weights corresponding to a matrix. Hardware compute logic is coupled with the memory cells. The hardware compute logic is configured to perform a vector-matrix multiplication (VMM) for the matrix and for a matrix transpose for the weights being station...