ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,073, issued on April 15, was assigned to Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus of interconnect with on-the-fly quantization and operating method thereof" was invented by Young Ho Gong (Seoul, South Korea), Woo Hyuck Park (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Ye Bin Kwon (Seoul, South Korea) and Donggyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a quantization interconnect apparatus and an operating method thereof according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, in a quantization artificial neural network accelerator system, the quantization is per...