US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 9 for "Z-first reference neural processing unit for mapping winograd convolution and a method thereof" (Indian, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,079, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Z-first reference neural processing unit for mapping winograd convolution and a method thereof" was invented by Gopinath Vasanth Mahale (Bangalore, India), Pramod Parameshwara Udupa (Bangalore, India), Kiran Kolar Chandrasek Haran (Bangalore, India) and Sehwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A z-first reference neural processing unit (NPU) for mapping Winograd Convolution is disclosed where the NPU includes memory banks configured to store input feature maps (IFMs) in a z-first data storage layout, each of the mem...