US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 8 for "Inference device and method for reducing the memory usage in a weight matrix" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,983, issued on July 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inference device and method for reducing the memory usage in a weight matrix" was invented by Kenya Sugihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included in an inference device of a neural network are: a memory for storing a layer on an input side and weight data for generating a matrix multiplication using the layer on the input side; and a processor for generating a layer on an output side, by using the layer on the input side and the weight data for generating the matrix multiplication using the layer on the input side, in which, out of a plurality of rows...