ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,081, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Binary neural network hardware apparatus" was invented by Sung Min Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Woo Suh (Daejeon, South Korea), Wang Joo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeong Woo Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a binary neural network hardware apparatus. The binary neural network hardware apparatus includes a sense amplifier configured to compare a bit line voltage of a bit line with a predetermined reference voltage; an input unit configured to input the bit line voltage...