ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,006, issued on July 14, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Method for managing a convolutional computation and corresponding device" was invented by Laurent Folliot (Gourdon, France), Mirko Falchetto (Ossona, Italy) and Pierre Demaj (Nice, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method for managing a convolutional calculation carried out by a calculation unit adapted to calculate output data on output channels from convolution kernels applied to input data blocks on at least one input channel, wherein calculations on each input da...