US Patent Issued to Chromatic on July 15 for "Neural network chip for ear-worn device" (New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,259, issued on July 15, was assigned to Chromatic Inc. (New York).

"Neural network chip for ear-worn device" was invented by Andrew Casper (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Matthew de Jonge (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Igor Lovchinsky (New York), Nicholas Morris (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jonathan Macoskey (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid may include a neural network chip having tiles arranged in an array, each tile including memory, 16-128 multiplier-accumulator circuits (MACs), and routing circuitry. The memory of each tile may be configured to store a portion of elements of a matrix A comprising weights of a recurrent neural ne...