US Patent Issued to NEC on June 23 for "Information processing circuit and method of designing information processing circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,965, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing circuit and method of designing information processing circuit" was invented by Takashi Takenaka (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing circuit 10 performs operations on layers in deep learning, and includes a product sum circuit 11 which performs a product-sum operation using input data and parameter values, and a parameter value output circuit 12 which outputs the parameter values, wherein the parameter value output circuit 12 is composed of a combinational circuit."

The patent was filed on Oct. 31...