ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,849, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory mapping method and apparatus" was invented by Channoh Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoojin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory mapping method includes storing a feature map including a plurality of sets of data used for a neural network operation in a memory, shifting a position of a portion of the data included in the feature map that is stored in the memory based on a parameter of the neural network operation, and outputting data requested by the neural network operation from the feature map in which ...