US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 6 for "Accelerator for deep neural networks" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,139, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Accelerator for deep neural networks" was invented by Patrick Judd (Toronto), Jorge Albericio (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Delmas Lascorz (Toronto), Andreas Moshovos (Toronto) and Sayeh Sharifymoghaddam (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for bit-serial computation in a neural network is described. The system may be embodied on an integrated circuit and include one or more bit-serial tiles for performing bit-serial computations in which each bit-serial tile receives input neurons and synapses, and communicates output neurons. Also...