ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,684, issued on July 29, was assigned to INHA-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE (Incheon, South Korea).

"Method of splitting and re-connecting neural networks for adaptive continual learning in dynamic environments" was invented by Dongwan Choi (Incheon, South Korea) and Jongyeong Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of splitting and reconnecting neural networks for adaptive continual learning in dynamic environments. A continual learning method of a neural network model includes a split phase for independently learning a split neural network model using an old task and a new task, and a bridge p...