ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,026, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Analog MAC aware DNN improvement" was invented by Gilad Kirshenboim (Petach Tiqva, Israel), Ran Sahar (Evan Yehuda, Israel), Douglas C. Burger (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yehonathan Refael Kalim (Herzeliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for improving performance (e.g., reducing power consumption) of a hardware accelerator (e.g., neural processor) comprising hybrid or analog multiply and accumulate (MAC) processing elements (PEs). Selective variation of the precision of an array ...