US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Mapping neural networks to hardware" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,132, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Mapping neural networks to hardware" was invented by Muhammad Asad (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Cagatay Dikici (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mapping a neural network to hardware uses a binary tree to assess how to split a layer of the neural network into a plurality of hardware passes by determining a starting value of a current depth within the binary tree and arranging the set of coefficients into groups, each corresponding to a node at the current depth. A compressed size of at least...