ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,154, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Feature map processing method and related device" was invented by Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Jue Mao (Hangzhou, China) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of artificial intelligence technologies, and provides a feature map processing method and a related device. The method is implemented by invoking a neural network model that includes a plurality of input adaptation branches and a post-processing part. An output of each of the plurality of input adaptation branches is an input...