ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,018, issued on June 23, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Artificial intelligence processor and method of processing deep-learning operation using the same" was invented by Jin-Ho Han (Seoul, South Korea), Byung-Jo Kim (Sejong-si, South Korea), Ju-Yeob Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hye-Ji Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Joo-Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seong-Min Kim (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) processor. The AI processor includes multiple NVM AI cores for respectively performing basic unit opera...