ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,629, issued on May 20.

"Artificial neural network integrity verification" was invented by Alberto Troia (Munich), Antonino Mondello (Messina, Italy) and Michelangelo Pisasale (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprises receiving a number of inputs to a system employing an artificial neural network (ANN), wherein the ANN comprises a number of ANN partitions each having respective weight matrix data and bias data corresponding thereto stored in a memory. The method includes: determining an ANN partition to which the number of inputs correspond, reading, from the memory the weight matrix data and bias data...