US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "Hardware implementations of activation functions in neural networks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,388, issued on Sept. 16.

"Hardware implementations of activation functions in neural networks" was invented by Bindiganavale S. Nataraj (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry for performing neural-network calculations includes a plurality of compute circuits, arranged in parallel with respective inputs and outputs, to receive function arguments for a node of a neural network on their respective inputs, compute values of a plurality of activation functions using the function arguments, and provide the values on their respective outputs. Each compute circuit of the plurality of compute circuits is to compute the v...