ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,414, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to DEEPX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Programming method of an activation function and an activation function programming unit" was invented by Jong Hoon Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Lok Won Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyung Jin Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ho Seung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An activation function conversion program unit and method may be configured to approximate a target activation function to a programmed activation function through machine-learning of an artificial neural network. The method may include setting up a target act...