US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 17 for "Configurable processor element arrays for implementing convolutional neural networks" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,962, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configurable processor element arrays for implementing convolutional neural networks" was invented by Debabrata Mohapatra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arnab Raha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gautham Chinya (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Huichu Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Cormac Brick (San Francisco) and Lance Hacking (Spanish Fork, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example apparatus disclosed herein include an array of processor elements, the array including rows each having a first number of processor elements and columns each having a second number of processor elements. Disclo...