ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,025, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Memory allocation method and apparatus for neural network" was invented by Lihua Huang (Shenzhen, China), Hao Ding (Shenzhen, China) and Aoxiang Fan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory allocation method for a neural network includes determining information about N memory blocks, sorting the N memory blocks in descending order based on sizes of the N memory blocks, allocating a first memory block to the neural network, to perform an operation for a first node set in the neural network, determining whether a memory block in an...