US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 1 for "Neural network accelerator" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,018, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Neural network accelerator" was invented by Andreas Moshovos (Toronto), Alberto Delmas Lascorz (Toronto), Zisis Poulos (Toronto), Dylan Malone Stuart (Toronto), Patrick Judd (Merlin, Canada), Sayeh Sharifymoghaddam (Toronto), Mostafa Mahmoud (Toronto), Milos Nikolic (Toronto), Kevin Chong Man Siu (Toronto) and Jorge Albericio (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a neural network accelerator tile for exploiting input sparsity. The tile includes a weight memory to supply each weight lane with a weight and a wei...