US Patent Issued to DEEPX on Sept. 9 for "Neural processing unit that reuses feature maps and its operation method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,070, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DEEPX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Neural processing unit that reuses feature maps and its operation method" was invented by Dong Hyun Min (Goyang-si, South Korea), Jung Boo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Kyeong Han Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Ho Seung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyun Jin Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reusing feature maps that is operable on a neural processing unit (NPU) includes calculating, for a first layer of at least one artificial neural network (ANN) model, a space cost based on sizes of an input feature map, an out...