ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,372, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for feature-maps allocation in system-cache using prioritized linear scan for neural network acceleration" was invented by Rahul Sharma (Bengaluru, India) and Gourav Chatterjee (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for allocation of feature-maps in a system cache in a DRAM includes receiving input feature maps associated with data at the system cache, and then creating clusters of spatially co-located features maps and calculating a priority of each of the clusters based on one or more cluste...