US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for pruning binary neural networks guided by weight flipping frequency" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,101, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for pruning binary neural networks guided by weight flipping frequency" was invented by Yixing Li (Tempe, Ariz.) and Fengbo Ren (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system and method for pruning binary neural networks by analyzing weight flipping frequency and pruning the binary neural network based on the weight flipping frequency associated with each channel of the binary neural network are disclosed herein."

The patent was filed on May 11, 2021, under App...