ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,555, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Training network with discrete weight values" was invented by Steven L. Teig (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Eric A. Sather (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide an electronic device that includes a set of processing units and a set of machine-readable media. The set of machine-readable media stores sets of instructions for applying a network of computation nodes to an input received by the device. The set of machine-readable media stores at least two sets of machine-trained parameters for configuring the network for different ty...