ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,565, issued on May 13, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Data processing method and device for bit-number reduction in a neural network by establishing bit upper bound and bit lower bound using distribution information" was invented by Chao-Hung Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Ming-Chun Hsyu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Chih Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wen-Pin Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chun-Te Yu (Yunlin County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method used in neural network computing is provided. During a training phase of a neural network model, a feedforward procedure based on a c...