US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for performing deep learning operations" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,951, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for performing deep learning operations" was invented by Dongyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sehwan Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing deep learning operations. A computation apparatus includes an adder tree-based tensor core configured to perform a tensor operation, and a multiplier and accumulator (MAC)-based vector core configured to perform a vector operation using an output of the tensor core as an input."

The patent was filed on May 4, 2021, un...