US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on Oct. 6 for "Convolution hardware accelerator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,714, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Convolution hardware accelerator" was invented by Xiaocheng He (San Jose, Calif.) and Brian Schoner (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes multiplication and accumulation (MAC) cells, a feature processor circuit, and a weight processor circuit. The feature processor circuit receives, from a memory input units each comprising input feature elements from different respective channels of an input tensor, generates extended feature units each comprising an input feature element from each of the input units and f...