ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,933, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Ultra pipelined accelerator for machine learning inference" was invented by Titash Rakshit (Austin, Texas), Malik Aqeel Anwar (Atlanta) and Ryan Hatcher (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of pipelining inference of a neural network, which includes an i-th layer (i being an integer greater than zero), an (i+1)-th layer, and an (i+2)-th layer, includes processing a first set of i-th values of the i-th layer to generate (i+1)-th values for the (i+1)-th layer, determining a quantity of the (i+1)-th values as being sufficient ...