ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,659, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).
"Processor with outlier accommodation" was invented by Ali Shafiee Ardestani (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Joseph Hassoun (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing sets of multiplications in a manner that accommodates outlier values. In some embodiments the method includes: forming a first set of products, each product of the first set of products being a product of a first activation value and a respective weight of a first plurality of weights. The forming of the first set of products may include mult...