US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus for performing a neural network operation" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,778, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Method and apparatus for performing a neural network operation" was invented by Lorenzo Zuolo (Lusia, Italy) and Rino Micheloni (Turate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a neural network operation includes receiving weight and bias values of a deep neural network (DNN). An array of feature values, a bias value and a set of weight values for a single layer of the DNN are coupled to a neural network engine. Multiply-and-accumulate operations are performed on the single layer at one or more multiply and accumulate circuit (MAC...