US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 13 for "Hidden-layer routing for disaggregated artificial neural networks" (Canadian, American, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,430, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hidden-layer routing for disaggregated artificial neural networks" was invented by Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Frank Brockners (Cologne, Germany), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Matthias Falkner (Ottawa), Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Michel-Ange Feltin (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel techniques and mechanisms enable processing of heavy deep learning workloads on standard edge network devices to optimize the overall inference throughput of the network while meeting Service Level Agreement(s) (SLAs). The te...