US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University on Feb. 10 for "Method and device for operating depthwise convolution by using the systolic array" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,671, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for operating depthwise convolution by using the systolic array" was invented by Hyungmin Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes a first step of preloading weight values of each filter into respective processing element (PE) chains through a column input link, a second step of supplying an input value to the column input link in the same order as the weight values of the preloaded filters, a third step of starting accumulation in a column output link...