US Patent Issued to Intel on June 2 for "Compute near memory convolution accelerator" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,635, issued on June 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compute near memory convolution accelerator" was invented by Huseyin Ekin Sumbul (Portland, Ore.), Gregory K. Chen (Portland, Ore.), Phil Knag (Hillsboro, Ore.), Raghavan Kumar (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Ram Krishnamurthy (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute near memory (CNM) convolution accelerator enables a convolutional neural network (CNN) to use dedicated acceleration to achieve efficient in-place convolution operations with less impact on memory and energy consumption. A 2D convolution operation is reformulated as 1D row-wise convolution. T...