Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Assigned Patent

Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd., Pudong New Area, China, has been assigned a patent (10,971,221) developed by Liu, Shaoli, Zhou, Xuda, Du, Zidong, and Liu, Daofu, Pudong New Area, China, for “storage device and methods with fault tolerance capability for neural networks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Aspect for storage device with fault tolerance capability for neural networks are described herein. The aspects may include a first storage unit of a storage device. The first storage unit is configured to store one or more first bits of data and the data includes floating point type data and fixed point type data. The first bits include one or more sign bits of the floating point type data and the fixed point type data. The aspect may further include a second storage unit of the storage device. The second storage unit may be configured to store one or more second bits of the data. In some examples, the first storage unit may include an ECC memory and the second storage unit may include a non-ECC memory. The ECC memory may include an ECC check Dynamic Random Access Memory and an ECC check Static Random Access Memory.”

The patent application was filed on April 30, 2020 (16/863,959).