US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS, STMicroelectronics International on May 5 for "Acceleration of 1X1 convolutions in convolutional neural networks" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,678, issued on May 5, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Acceleration of 1X1 convolutions in convolutional neural networks" was invented by Michele Rossi (Bareggio, Italy), Thomas Boesch (Rovio, Switzerland) and Giuseppe Desoli (San Fermo Della Battaglia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convolutional accelerator includes a feature line buffer, a kernel buffer, a multiply-accumulate cluster, and mode control circuitry. In a first mode of operation, the mode control circuitry stores feature data in a feature line buffer and stores kernel data in a ...