ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,471, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating fixed-point quantized neural network" was invented by Junhaeng Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seungwon Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sangwon Ha (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Wonjo Lee (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a fixed-point quantized neural network includes analyzing a statistical distribution for each channel of floating-point parameter values of feature maps and a kernel for each channel from data of a pre-trained floating-point neural network, deter...