ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,139, issued on June 10, was assigned to UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for accelerating neural networks" was invented by Youngsok Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Mingi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeyong Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Jounghoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for accelerating neural networks, includes: a memory for storing graph input data including vertices and edges; an aggregation engine that processes the accumulation of features and generates feature vectors by taking the graph input data and performing ...