US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 4 for "Deep neural network architecture using piecewise linear approximation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,155, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deep neural network architecture using piecewise linear approximation" was invented by Kamlesh Pillai (Bangalore, India), Gurpreet S. Kalsi (Bangalore, India) and Amit Mishra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a log circuit to: identify an input associated with a logarithm operation, wherein the logarithm operation is to be performed by the log circuit using piecewise linear approximation; identify a first range that the input falls within, wherein the first range is identified from a plurality of ranges a...