ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,930, issued on March 24, was assigned to DEEPX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"NPU for generating feature map based on coefficients and method thereof" was invented by Lok Won Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural processing unit (NPU), a method for driving an artificial neural network (ANN) model, and an ANN driving apparatus are provided. The NPU includes a semiconductor circuit that includes at least one processing element (PE) configured to process an operation of an artificial neural network (ANN) model; and at least one memory configurable to store a first kernel and a first kernel filter....