The EPO granted patent EP4000229A1 to Google LLC for inventions relating to initialization of on-chip operations in hardware accelerators, specifically targeting neural network processing systems. The patent application (EP4000229) was published March 25, 2026, with inventors Gunter, Pope, Krajcevski, and Biffe covering technical approaches in AI computing hardware classified under G06N 3/063.

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