US Patent Issued to CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 25 for "Calculating device and method for a sparsely connected artificial neural network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,886, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED (Beijing).

"Calculating device and method for a sparsely connected artificial neural network" was invented by Shijin Zhang (Beijing), Qi Guo (Beijing), Yunji Chen (Beijing) and Tianshi Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects for modifying data in a multi-layer neural network (MNN) acceleration processor for neural networks are described herein. As an example, the aspects may include receiving a predetermined weight value array and connection data. Further, the aspects may include modifying the weight values included in the predetermined we...