US Patent Issued to Google on April 15 for "Vector computation unit in a neural network processor" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,499, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Vector computation unit in a neural network processor" was invented by Gregory Michael Thorson (Waunakee, Wis.), Christopher Aaron Clark (Madison, Wis.) and Dan Luu (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network comprising a plurality of layers, the circuit comprising: activation circuitry configured to receive a vector of accumulated values and configured to apply a function to each accumulated value to generate a vector of activation values; and normalization circuitry coupled to the ...