US Patent Issued to National Cheng Kung University on April 14 for "Accelerator system and method to execute depthwise separable convolution" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,336, issued on April 14, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Accelerator system and method to execute depthwise separable convolution" was invented by Chung-ho Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Cheng-you Xie (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accelerator system includes an off-chip memory, a bus, and an accelerator. The off-chip memory includes a first buffer. The accelerator includes a second buffer, a third buffer, a fourth buffer, an instruction fetching module, a load module, a storage module, a convolution control module, and a computation module. The instruction fetching modu...