ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,852, issued on May 6, was assigned to Moffett International Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).
"Hierarchical networks on chip (NoC) for neural network accelerator" was invented by Xiaoqian Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Zhibin Xiao (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes a hardware accelerator and a device for accelerating neural network computations. An example accelerator may include multiple cores and a central processing unit (CPU) respectively associated with DDRs, a data exchange interface connecting a host device to the accelerator, and a three-layer NoC architecture. The three-layer NoC archi...