US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on May 12 for "Device and method for on-the-fly processing chain reconfiguration in a streaming based neural processing unit" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,842, issued on May 12, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Device and method for on-the-fly processing chain reconfiguration in a streaming based neural processing unit" was invented by Carmine Cappetta (Battipaglia, Italy), Paolo Sergio Zambotti (Milan), 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 neural network is able to reconfigure hardware accelerators on-the-fly without stopping downstream hardware accelerators. The neural network inserts a reconfiguration tag into the stream of feature data. If the reconfiguration tag matc...