ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,322, issued on March 25, was assigned to DEEPX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Technology for lowering instantaneous power consumption of neural processing unit" was invented by Lok Won Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jung Boo Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Seong Jin Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may comprise a neural processing unit (NPU) including at least one memory and a plurality of processing elements (PEs) capable of performing operations for at least one artificial neural network (ANN) model. The plurality of PEs may include an adder, a multiplier, and an accumulator. The plurality ...