ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,350, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Systems and methods for hardware-based pooling" was invented by Peter Joseph Bannon (Woodside, Calif.) and Kevin Altair Hurd (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods that utilize a novel hardware-based pooling architecture to process the output of a convolution engine representing an output channel of a convolution layer in a convolutional neural network (CNN). The pooling system converts the output into a set of arrays and aligns them according to a pooling operation to generate a pooling result. In certain embodi...