US Patent Issued to Google on June 2 for "Hardware circuit for accelerating neural network computations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,924, issued on June 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hardware circuit for accelerating neural network computations" was invented by Ravi Narayanaswami (San Jose, Calif.), Dong Hyuk Woo (San Jose, Calif.), Suyog Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Uday Kumar Dasari (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, are described for a hardware circuit configured to implement a neural network. The circuit includes multiple super tiles. Each super tile includes a unified memory for storing inputs to a neural network layer and weights for the layer. Each ...