US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 26 for "Neural network inference circuit performing matrix multiplication" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,557, issued on May 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Neural network inference circuit performing matrix multiplication" was invented by Kenneth Duong (San Jose, Calif.), Jung Ko (San Jose, Calif.), Steven L. Teig (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Brian Thomas (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a neural network inference circuit (NNIC) for executing a network having multiple layers. The NNIC includes multiple circuit sets. Each circuit set includes a dot product circuit to compute dot products between weight values and activation values for at least a subset of a first set of the la...