US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Jan. 27 for "Methods and apparatus for kernel tensor and tree partition based neural network compression framework" (New Jersey, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,949, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for kernel tensor and tree partition based neural network compression framework" was invented by Hua Yang (Plainsboro, N.J.), Duanshun Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Dong Tian (Boxborough, Mass.) and Yuwen He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding or decoding a video comprising a current picture, a first reference picture, and a weight tensor associated with a trained neural network (NN) model are provided. The method includes generating any number of kernel tensors, input channels and output channels assoc...