US Patent Issued to Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences on April 8 for "Convolutional neural network computing method and system based on weight kneading" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,807, issued on April 8, was assigned to Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Convolutional neural network computing method and system based on weight kneading" was invented by Xiaowei Li (Beijing), Xin Wei (Beijing) and Hang Lu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to a convolutional neural network computing method and system based on weight kneading, comprising: arranging original weights in a computation sequence and aligning by bit to obtain a weight matrix, removing slack bits in the weight matrix, allowing essential bits in each column of the weight matrix to f...