US Patent Issued to Google on May 27 for "Image processing neural networks with separable convolutional layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,838, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image processing neural networks with separable convolutional layers" was invented by Francois Chollet (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andrew Gerald Howard (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network system is configured to receive an input image and to generate a classification output for the input image. The neural network system includes: a separable convolution subnetwork comprising a plurality of separable convolutional neural network layers arranged in a stack one after the other, in which each separable convolutional neural network...