US Patent Issued to Xilinx on May 5 for "Programmable non-linear activation engine for neural network acceleration" (American, Irish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,870, issued on May 5, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Programmable non-linear activation engine for neural network acceleration" was invented by Rajeev Patwari (Campbell, Calif.), Chaithanya Dudha (San Jose, Calif.), Jorn Tuyls (Leinster, Ireland), Kaushik Barman (Hyderabad, India) and Aaron Ng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable, non-linear (PNL) activation engine for a neural network is capable of receiving input data within a circuit. In response to receiving an instruction corresponding to the input data, the PNL activation engine is capable of selecting a first non-linear activation fun...