US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 11 for "Reduced power consumption analog or hybrid mac neural network" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,474, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reduced power consumption analog or hybrid mac neural network" was invented by Evgeny Royzen (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Evgeny Rogachov (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power efficient performance may be implemented in a hardware accelerator (e.g., a neural processor) comprising hybrid or analog multiply and accumulate (MAC) processing elements (PEs). For example, power consumption may be reduced in neural networks with a rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation layer. A hybrid or analog MAC circuit may be configured with a ...