ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,649, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Number format selection in recurrent neural networks" was invented by Muhammad Asad (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Elia Condorelli (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), James Imber (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Cagatay Dikici (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of selecting a number format for representing two or more values of a recurrent neural network (RNN) for use in configuring a hardware implementation of the RNN, includes receiving a representation of the RNN; implementin...