ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,490, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Efficient binary representations from neural networks" was invented by Ryan McDonald (London) and Luis Sarmento (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Persistent storage contains a representation of a neural network including an input layer, and output layer, and a hidden layer, wherein nodes of the hidden layer incorporate serialized activation functions, wherein the serialized activation functions for each of the nodes include a sigmoid function and a Beta function, wherein the sigmoid function is applied to weighted outputs from nodes of a previous layer ...