US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 29 for "Methods of operating an artificial neural network using a compute-in-memory accelerator and a bitwise activation function" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,686, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods of operating an artificial neural network using a compute-in-memory accelerator and a bitwise activation function" was invented by Jing Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Yen-Kai Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Yuanchen Chu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Woosung Choi (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing an artificial neural network comprising a compute-in-memory accelerator, the artificial neural network further comprising a hidden layer including a first plurality of artificial neurons; and training the artificial ne...