Singular Computing LLC

Singular Computing LLC has filed a second case against Alphabet (Google) (1:19-cv-12551), asserting the two most recent patents to issue in the same family from which the three patents already in suit are drawn. The inventor-controlled NPE again targets the use of certain Google Tensor Processing Units (application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) used for AI acceleration). The accused TPUs—specifically, the TPU v2, v3, and v4—are allegedly used to “deliver services such as Translate, Photos, Search, Assistant, Cloud and Gmail”. Singular Computing’s first suit against Google, filed in December 2020, also in the District of Massachusetts, is under a partial stay until May 2022.

Inventor-controlled Singular Computing LLC has filed suit against Alphabet (Google) (1:19-cv-12551) in the District of Massachusetts over three patents broadly directed to a device for “processing with compact arithmetic” operations that allegedly make more efficient use of transistors. The plaintiff targets Google over the provision of hardware for accelerating artificial intelligence applications (its Cloud Tensor Processing Unit ASIC systems), targeting its alleged used of deep learning models to improve computational efficiency; this hardware purportedly powers “at least Google Translate, Photos, Search, Assistant, and Gmail”.