ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,541, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seoul National University R & DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device with neural network model" was invented by Sungjoo Yoo (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungyeop Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes: a comparator; an exclusive-NOR (XNOR) gate; an accumulator; and a multiplication and accumulation (MAC) operator, wherein a basic block of a neural network comprises a first batch normalization layer, a quantization layer, a convolution layer, an active layer, and a second batch normalizatio...