ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,678, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Hardware accelerator method and device" was invented by Junki Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joonsang Yu (Seoul, South Korea) and Jun-Woo Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented hardware accelerator method includes: receiving input data; loading a lookup table (LUT); determining an address of the LUT by inputting the input data to a comparator; obtaining a value of the LUT corresponding to the input data based on the address; and determining a value of a nonlinear function corresponding to the input...