US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 10 for "Neural network apparatus performing floating-point operation and operating method of the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,181, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Neural network apparatus performing floating-point operation and operating method of the same" was invented by Soonwan Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minje Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sangjoon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network apparatus performs multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations with respect to fractions of weights and input activations in a block floating-point format by using an analog crossbar array, performs addition operations with respect to shared exponents of weights and input ac...