US Patent Issued to International Business Machines Cororation on Feb. 18 for "Neural network accelerators resilient to conductance drift" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,680, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Cororation (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neural network accelerators resilient to conductance drift" was invented by HsinYu Tsai (San Jose, Calif.), Stefano Ambrogio (San Jose, Calif.), Sanjay Kariyappa (Atlanta) and Mathieu Gallot (Les Sables-d'Olonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving an input signal for processing in one or more neurons of a neural network, wherein the neural network has zero bias neurons and includes a plurality of resistive processing unit (RPU) weights and each neuron has an activation function. The method also includes ...