US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Executing sublayers of a fully-connected layer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,691, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Executing sublayers of a fully-connected layer" was invented by Randy Huang (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Ron Diamant (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques for implementing a large fully-connected layer in an artificial neural network. The large fully-connected layer is grouped into multiple fully-connected subnetworks. Each fully-connected subnetwork is configured to classify an object into an unknown class or a class in a subset of target classes. If the object is classified as the unknown class by a fully-connected sub...