US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on April 29 for "Neural network weight encoding" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,152, issued on April 29, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Neural network weight encoding" was invented by Ivo Leonardus Coenen (Coffrane, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a neural network circuit for decoding weights of a neural network includes a weight memory configured to store encoded weights for the neural network, where the encoded weights includes an index weight word, and a decompression logic circuit configured to retrieve the encoded weights from the weight memory, decode the encoded weights using the index weight word to obtain a sequence of one ...