US Patent Issued to Hailo Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Structured sparsity guided training in an artificial neural network" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,543, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hailo Technologies Ltd. (Israel).

"Structured sparsity guided training in an artificial neural network" was invented by Avi Baum (Givat Shmuel, Israel), Or Danon (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Daniel Chibotero (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel and useful system and method of improved power performance and lowered memory requirements for an artificial neural network based on packing memory utilizing several structured sparsity mechanisms. The invention applies to neural network (NN) processing engines adapted to implement mechanisms to search for structured sparsity in weight...