US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 20 for "Deep neural networks with no multiplications and no floating point operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,374, issued on May 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Deep neural networks with no multiplications and no floating point operations" was invented by Shumeet Baluja (San Diego) and David Marwood (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods that train and use neural networks that can be run with no multiplications and no floating point operations. In particular, according to one aspect of the present disclosure, the respective non-linear and continuous activation functions typically used by the nodes of a neural network can be replaced with custom activation...