ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,843, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Neural network operation method and apparatus with mapping orders" was invented by Sehwan Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jongeun Lee (Ulsan, South Korea) and Jooyeon Choi (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network operation apparatus includes an input register to store an input feature map, a processing element array including a processing element to perform an operation based on the input feature map and a weight matrix, and a contr...