US Patent Issued to University of Louisiana at Lafayette on May 13 for "Method for pulse-based convolution for near-sensor processing" (Louisiana, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,556, issued on May 13, was assigned to University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lafayette, La.).

"Method for pulse-based convolution for near-sensor processing" was invented by Mohammad Hassan Najafi (Lafayette, La.), S. Rasoul Faraji (Minneapolis), Kiarash Bazargan (Minneapolis) and David Lilja (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a low-cost, high-performance, and energy-efficient near-sensor convolution engine based on pulsed unary processing. The disclosed engine removes the necessity of using costly analog-to-digital converters. Synthesis results show that the proposed pulse-based design significantly impr...