US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO on Feb. 17 for "System and method for off-chip data compression and decompression for machine learning networks" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,044, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto).

"System and method for off-chip data compression and decompression for machine learning networks" was invented by Alberto Delmas Lascorz (Toronto) and Andreas Moshovos (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a system and method for compression and decompression of a data stream used by machine learning networks. The method including: encoding each value in the data stream, including: determining a mapping to one of a plurality of non-overlapping ranges, each value encoded as a symbol representative of the...