ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Jan. 24 -- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, Washington has been assigned a patent (No. US 11562047 B2, initially filed April 29, 2020) developed by three inventors Layali Rashid, Issaquah, Washington; Saurabh M. Kulkarni, Redmond, Washington; and Marc Tremblay, Bellevue, Washington, for "Accelerator for dense and sparse matrix computations." . . .