US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 25 for "Stochastic rounding switched capacitor computation cores useful for efficient deep learning inference" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,619, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stochastic rounding switched capacitor computation cores useful for efficient deep learning inference" was invented by Chia-Yu Chen (Westchester, N.Y.), Ankur Agrawal (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Andrea Fasoli (San Jose, Calif.) and Kyu-hyoun Kim (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes multiple analog to digital converters. Individual analog to digital converters are configured to produce a digital output from an analog input and configured to compute a least significant bit of the digital output by comparing an intern...