ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,283, issued on March 18, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Arithmetic devices for neural network" was invented by Choung Ki Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arithmetic device includes an activation function (AF) control circuit, a data storage circuit, and an output distribution signal generation circuit. The AF control circuit generates a column address, a data selection signal, and an internal control signal based on an arithmetic result signal during an activation operation. The data storage circuit outputs activation data from a memory cell array that is selected by the column...