US Patent Issued to Tensordyne on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for logarithmic mathematics in AI matrix multiplications" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,254, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tensordyne Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for logarithmic mathematics in AI matrix multiplications" was invented by Jian Hui Huang (Los Altos, Calif.), Gary S. Goldman (Los Altos, Calif.), Jan Lennart Haug (Munich), Michael Wilhelm Laraia (Munich) and Lukas Rinder (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A matrix multiplication system and method are disclosed that perform multiplication in a logarithmic domain and accumulation in a linear domain using co-designed bidirectional conversion circuits. Linear-domain operands are converted to a logarithmic domain by a linear-to-logarit...