US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Breakpoints in neural network accelerator" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,438, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Breakpoints in neural network accelerator" was invented by Samuel Jacob (Fremont, Calif.), Drazen Borkovic (Los Altos, Calif.), Yu Zhou (Pflugerville, Texas) and Mohammad El-Shabani (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for setting a breakpoint for debugging a neural network. User input is received by a debugger program executable by a host processor indicating a target layer of a neural network at which to halt execution of the neural network. The neural network includes a first set of instructions to be executed by ...