US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 23 for "Accelerate neural networks with compression at different levels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,411, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Accelerate neural networks with compression at different levels" was invented by Ling Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ali Shafiee Ardestani (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network accelerator includes 2n multiplier circuits, 2n shifter circuits and an adder tree circuit. Each respective multiplier circuit multiplies a first value by a second value to output a first product value. Each respective first value is represented by a first predetermined number of bits beginning at a most significant bit of the first value having a va...