US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 7 for "Neural network acceleration" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,182, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Neural network acceleration" was invented by Mahesh M. Mehendale (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For neural network acceleration, a datapath can be configured to implement a convolution computation. A control unit can be configured to coordinate operations of the datapath to implement the convolution computation based on coded instructions representative of a neural network system. The control unit can be configured to command the datapath to convolve at least one input feature element of a set of input feature elements of at least one input feature map wi...