ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,740, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Neural network device for neural network operation, method of operating neural network device, and application processor including neural network device" was invented by Hyunpil Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seongwoo Ahn (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jonghyup Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network device for performing a neural network operation includes a floating point arithmetic circuit configured to perform a dot-product operation for each of a plurality of floating point data pairs, wherein the floa...