ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,321, issued on March 25, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Data feature augmentation system and method for low-precision neural network" was invented by Fu-Cheng Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi-Ching Kuo (Tainan, Taiwan), Chih-Sheng Lin (Tainan, Taiwan), Shyh-Shyuan Sheu (Zhubei, Taiwan), Tay-Jyi Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Shih-Chieh Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data feature augmentation system and method for a low-precision neural network are provided. The data feature augmentation system includes a first time difference unit. The first time difference unit includes a...