US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 11 for "Zero padding for convolutional neural networks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,303, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Zero padding for convolutional neural networks" was invented by Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas), Asheesh Bhardwaj (Allen, Texas) and Burton Adrik Copeland (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a matrix multiplication accelerator including a first memory, a second memory, and a memory controller. The second memory is configured to store multiple rows of an input feature map on a single line of cells of the memory, and to store a filter kernel. The memory controller reads multiple contigu...