ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,170, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Moffett International Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).
"Vector operation acceleration with convolution computation unit" was invented by Xiaoqian Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhibin Xiao (Los Altos, Calif.), Changxu Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Renjie Chen (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes hybrid hardware accelerators, systems, and apparatus for performing various computations in neural network applications using the same set of hardware resources. An example accelerator may include weight selectors, activation input interfaces, and a plurality of ...