US Patent Issued to DEEPX on May 26 for "Neural processing unit with dedicated circuitry for applying activation function" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,399, issued on May 26, was assigned to DEEPX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Neural processing unit with dedicated circuitry for applying activation function" was invented by Jin Ung Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function approximation unit includes a programmable function approximation circuit configured to directly compute a piecewise function according to a pre-stored coefficient; one or more dedicated function circuits configured to process at least one specific function among a reciprocal, a reciprocal square root, and a negative exponential function through a fixed hard-wired operation pipeline...