US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Activation functions for deep neural networks" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,091, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Activation functions for deep neural networks" was invented by Christopher Martin (Leighton Buzzard, Great Britain), Antonios Tsichlas (Watford, Great Britain) and Yuan Li (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hardware for implementing a Deep Neural Network (DNN) for performing an activation function includes, at an activation module for performing an activation function, a programmable lookup table for storing lookup data approximating the activation function over a first range of input values to the activation module, the method ...