US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, University of Zurich on May 13 for "Neural network-based inference method and apparatus" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,576, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and University of Zurich (Zurich).

"Neural network-based inference method and apparatus" was invented by Chang Gao (Zurich), Shih-Chii Liu (Zurich), Tobi Delbruck (Zurich) and Xi Chen (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a neural network-based inference method and apparatus. The neural network-based inference method includes compressing a matrix comprising processing elements corresponding to an operation of a neural network, balancing workloads related to the operation by reordering the compressed matrix based on the workloads,...