ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,564, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Neuron circuit and neural network circuit" was invented by Qi Liu (Beijing), Xumeng Zhang (Beijing), Ming Liu (Beijing), Hangbing Lv (Beijing) and Shibing Long (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neuron circuit (100), including a memristive element (M1) used to receive an excitation signal; a trigger element (D1) connected to the memristive element (M1) and used to receive a clock control signal for the neuron circuit and an output signal of the memristive element (M1); a feedback element (T1) connected to an output ...