ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,826, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Spike neural network circuit" was invented by Kwang Il Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Wook Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Eun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyuk Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae-Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an SNN circuit including a spike generator that receives an input spike signal and converts the input spike signal into a sub-spike signal and a main spike signal, a synaptic circuit that generates an operation signal based on a weight and outputs the...