US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for performing convolution neural network operations" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,413, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Method and apparatus for performing convolution neural network operations" was invented by Sathishkumar Donthu (Hyderabad, India) and Battu Prakash Reddy (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing a convolution of a NxN matrix. A weights matrix for a NxN Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is received and is divided into 3x3 weights matrixes. Lines of image values are read and are stored in a buffer as sets of image values. A 3x3 convolution is performed to generate a 3x3 convolution value. All 3x3 convol...