ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,415, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Area-efficient convolutional block" was invented by Richard Boyd (Ballynahinch, Ireland), Vasile Toma-Ii (Timis, Romania), Luca Puglia (Dublin) and Zsolt Biro (Harghita, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hardware accelerator designs for neural networks are improved with various approaches to reduce circuit area, improve power consumption, and reduce starvation. Convolutional layers of a neural network may multiply a set of weights with a set of inputs. One example defers two's complement arithmetic from the parallelized multiplication circuits and comp...