US Patent Issued to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY on March 25 for "Device, method and storage medium for accelerating activation function" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,315, issued on March 25, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Device, method and storage medium for accelerating activation function" was invented by Ta-Wei Chan (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Hung-Wen Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, a method and a storage medium for accelerating activation function in relation to data processing by artificial neural network provides a register for storing a storage table, a matching unit including a plurality of comparators, a logic unit, and a selection unit. The comparators compare an input variable of the activation function with t...