ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,358, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Neural network accelerator" was invented by Sungju Ryu (Busan, South Korea), Hyungjun Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Jae-Joon Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a neural network accelerator including a first bit operator generating a first multiplication result by performing multiplication on first feature 5 bits of input feature data and first weight bits of weight data, a second bit operator generating a second multiplication result by performing multiplication on second feature bits of the input feat...