US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 9 for "Neural network operation module and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,774, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Pudong New Area, China).

"Neural network operation module and method" was invented by Shaoli Liu (Pudong New Area, China) and Xishan Zhang (Pudong New Area, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network operation module, which comprises a storage unit that stores output neurons, weight precision and output neuron gradient precision of a multi-layer neural network; a controller unit that obtains an average value Y1 of the absolute value of the output neuron before fixed-point and an average value Y2 of the absolute value of the output neu...