ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,014, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FuriosaAI Co. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Neural network processor" was invented by Han Joon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Young Geun Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Byung Chul Hong (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification discloses an arithmetic processing device which has a high processing rate with a low cost. The arithmetic processing device according to the present specification is an arithmetic processing device comprising a fetch unit which reads data required for a calculation for performing processing of a neural network from a memory, and provides ...