US Patent Issued to XILINX on Feb. 17 for "Weight sparsity in data processing engines" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,036, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Weight sparsity in data processing engines" was invented by Francisco Barat Quesada (Dublin), Baris Ozgul (Dublin), Dylan Stuart (Maynooth, Ireland), Stephan Munz (Dublin), Zachary Dickman (Dublin), Javier Cabezas Rodriguez (Austin, Texas), David Patrick Clarke (Dublin), Pedro Miguel Parola Duarte (Skerries, Ireland), Peter Mccolgan (Dublin) and Juan J. Noguera Serra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples herein describe techniques for reducing the amount of memory used during weight sparsity. When decompressing the weights, the uncompressed w...