US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 25 for "Compiler for implementing gating functions for neural network configuration" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,317, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Compiler for implementing gating functions for neural network configuration" was invented by Brian Thomas (Vancouver, Canada) and Steven L. Teig (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a compiler for optimizing the implementation of a machine-trained network (e.g., a neural network) on an integrated circuit (IC). The compiler of some embodiments receives a specification of a machine-trained network including multiple layers of computation nodes and generates a graph representing options for implementing the machine-train...