US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University on Feb. 11 for "Accelerator for processing inference tasks in parallel and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,444, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Accelerator for processing inference tasks in parallel and operating method thereof" was invented by Ho Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Won Woo Ro (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Ji Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an accelerator and a method of operating the accelerator including determining whether any group shares weights of a first group from among groups, determining a presence of an idle processing element (PE) array,...