US Patent Issued to GRAPHCORE on Sept. 30 for "Processing data batches in a multi-layer network" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,552, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Processing data batches in a multi-layer network" was invented by Antoine Labatie (Paris), Dominic Alexander Masters (Bristol, Great Britain), Zachary Frank Eaton-Rosen (London) and Carlo Luschi (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of training a deep neural network, comprising, for each of one or more batches of training examples: processing the data in a forward pass through the layers of the network, by: applying a set of network weights to the input data to obtain a set of weighted inputs, normalising ...