ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,974, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method with neural network operation" was invented by Jun-Woo Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yoojin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Channoh Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyun Sun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network device includes: a memory configured to store a first feature map and a second feature map; and a neural network processor configured to operate a neural network, and comprising: a fetcher configured to fetch input data from the first feature map of the memory; a buffer configured ...