ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,948, issued on March 24, was assigned to Rebellions Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Neural processing device and method for pruning thereof" was invented by Jinwook Oh (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural processing device and method for pruning thereof are provided. The neural processing device includes a processing unit configured to perform calculations, an L0 memory configured to store input and output data of the processing unit, wherein the input and output data include a two-dimensional weight matrix and a weight manipulator configured to receive the two-dimensional weight matrix and partition i...