ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,266, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Hierarchical weight preprocessing for neural network accelerator" was invented by Jong Hoon Shin (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Shafiee Ardestani (San Jose, Calif.), Hamzah Ahmed Ali Abdelaziz (San Jose, Calif.) and Joseph H. Hassoun (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for weight preprocessing. In some embodiments, the method includes performing intra-tile preprocessing of a first weight tensor to form a first pre-processed weight tensor, and performing inter-tile preprocessing of the first pre-processed weight te...