US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 17 for "Neural network inference circuit with piecewise linear activation circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,416, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Neural network inference circuit with piecewise linear activation circuit" was invented by Kenneth Duong (San Jose, Calif.), Jung Ko (San Jose, Calif.), Steven L. Teig (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Won Rhee (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a neural network inference circuit for executing a neural network that includes computation nodes. Each respective computation node of a set of the computation nodes includes (i) a respective linear function that includes a respective dot product of input values for the computation no...