ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,584, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Artificial neural network computing systems" was invented by John Paul Lesso (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an artificial neural network (ANN) computing system comprising: a buffer configured to store data indicative of input data received from an input device; an inference engine operative to process data from the buffer to generate an interest metric for the input data; and a controller. The controller is operative to control a mode of operation of the inference engine according to the interest met...