ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,904, issued on April 1, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Apparatus and method for neural network computation" was invented by Sih-Han Li (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shih-Chieh Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shyh-Shyuan Sheu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jian-Wei Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Fu-Cheng Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for neural network computation are provided. The apparatus for neural network computation includes a first neuron circuit and a second neuron circuit. The first neuron circuit is configured to execute a neural network computation of at le...