US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 29 for "Neural network hardware accelerator system with zero-skipping and hierarchical structured pruning methods" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,696, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Neural network hardware accelerator system with zero-skipping and hierarchical structured pruning methods" was invented by Shai Litvak (Beit Hashmonai, Israel) and Eyal Hochberg (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for structured-pruning, zero-skipping and accelerated processing of an artificial neural network (ANN) are described. The ANN may include one or more convolution layers. 2D channels in filters of the convolution layers comprise fully pruned channels (FPCs), each containing only zero weights, and m...