ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,918, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Accelerator for deep neural networks" was invented by Patrick Judd (Toronto), Jorge Albericio (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Delmas Lascorz (Toronto), Andreas Moshovos (Toronto) and Sayeh Sharifymoghaddam (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system, integrated circuit and method for reducing ineffectual computations in the processing of layers in a neural network. One or more tiles perform computations where each tile receives input neurons, offsets and synapses, and where each input neuron has an associated offset. Each tile...