US Patent Issued to Google on April 7 for "Accelerating neural networks in hardware using interconnected crossbars" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,922, issued on April 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Accelerating neural networks in hardware using interconnected crossbars" was invented by Pierre-Luc Cantin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Olivier Temam (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing unit for accelerating a neural network is disclosed. The computing unit include an input unit that includes a digital-to-analog conversion unit and an analog-to-digital conversion unit that is configured to receive an analog signal from the output of a last interconnected analog crossbar circuit of a plurality of analog crossbar circuits and convert the seco...