US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 9 for "Power-efficient hybrid traversal apparatus and method for convolutional neural network accelerator architecture" (Indian, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,068, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Power-efficient hybrid traversal apparatus and method for convolutional neural network accelerator architecture" was invented by Gopinath Vasanth Mahale (Karnataka, India), Pramod Parameshwara Udupa (Karnataka, India), Kiran Kolar Chandrasekharan (Karnataka, India) and Sehwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a hybrid traversal apparatus and method for a convolution neural network (CNN) accelerator architecture that receives input feature map (IFM) microbatches from a pixel memory and receiving kernel m...