ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,431, issued on July 7, was assigned to Moffett International Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Hybrid network-on-chip (NoC) for thread synchronization in many-core neural network accelerators" was invented by Zhibin Xiao (Los Altos, Calif.) and Xiaoqian Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes a network-on-chip system that could be used in a hardware accelerator for accelerating neural network computations. An example NoC system may include a plurality of cores, and a plurality of data links connecting adjacent cores of the plurality of cores for transmitting data. The example NoC may further ...