ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,837, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Neural network accelerator in DIMM form factor" was invented by Doe Hyun Yoon (Foster City, Calif.), Lifeng Nai (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Peter Ma (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to a neural network dual in-line memory module (NN-DIMM), a microelectronic system comprising a CPU and a plurality of the NN-DIMMs, and a method of transferring information between the CPU and the plurality of the NN-DIMMS. The NN-DIMM may include a module card having a plurality of parallel edge contacts adjacent to an edge of a slot conn...