US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for forward computation of neural network, and computer-readable storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,080, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for forward computation of neural network, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Wen Ran Liu (Guangdong, China), Hong Rui Chen (Guangdong, China), Hao Yuan Li (Guangdong, China), Qi Feng Chen (Guangdong, China) and Feng Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for forward computation of a neural network are provided. The method includes: obtaining input data and weight data of at least one data processing layer; storing the input data by using a first texture storage struct...