US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 23 for "Acceleration of neural networks with stacks of convolutional layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,430, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Acceleration of neural networks with stacks of convolutional layers" was invented by Thiam Khean Hah (San Jose, Calif.), Randy Renfu Huang (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Richard John Heaton (San Jose, Calif.), Ron Diamant (San Jose, Calif.) and Vignesh Vivekraja (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network processor is configured to execute instructions in parallel on different computing engines (CEs) to perform convolution operations on an input dataset. The input dataset is divided into overlapping chunks, including a first chunk and a seco...