ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,804, issued on May 6, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).
"Convolution operation accelerator and convolution operation method" was invented by Xiangshui Miao (Hubei, China), Jiawei Fu (Hubei, China) and Yuhui He (Hubei, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a convolution operation accelerator and a convolution operation method and belongs to the field of microelectronic devices. Input data of each word line may be subjected to a multiply-accumulate operation together with two upper and lower layers of convolution kernel units, so that natural sliding of the convolution ...