US Patent Issued to Illumina on Jan. 13 for "Neural network parameter quantization for base calling" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,320, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Deigo, Canada).

"Neural network parameter quantization for base calling" was invented by Gavin Derek Parnaby (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of quantizing parameters of a neural network includes grouping a plurality of parameters of a neural network in a plurality of groups. Each group of the plurality of groups includes corresponding two or more parameters of the plurality of parameters. In an example, for each group, a corresponding quantization format is selected from a plurality of available quantization formats, such that a first quantizati...