US Patent Issued to NXP on July 28 for "Hardware accelerator and method of operating a hardware accelerator" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,079, issued on July 28, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Hardware accelerator and method of operating a hardware accelerator" was invented by Nicolas Harmen Lehment (Munich) and Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Johannus Michiels (Reusel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a hardware accelerator is provided, comprising: an execution unit configured to execute at least one artificial intelligence (AI) model using one or more resources of the hardware accelerator; a watermark verification unit configured to verify whether a predefined watermark is present i...