ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,131, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Vector computational unit" was invented by Debjit Das Sarma (San Jose, Calif.), Emil Talpes (San Mateo, Calif.) and Peter Joseph Bannon (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microprocessor system comprises a computational array and a vector computational unit. The computational array includes a plurality of computation units. The vector computational unit is in communication with the computational array and includes a plurality of processing elements. The processing elements are configured to receive output data elements from the computational array and...