US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 11 for "Accelerating processor based artificial neural network computation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,782, issued on March 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Accelerating processor based artificial neural network computation" was invented by Andrew Stevens (Neufinsing, Germany), Wolfgang Ecker (Munich) and Sebastian Prebeck (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus employed in a processing device comprises a processor configured to process data of a predefined data structure. A memory fetch device is coupled to the processor and is configured to determine addresses of the packed data for the processor. The packed data is stored on a memory device that is coupled to the processor. The memory...