ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,109, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Functional synthesis of networks of neurosynaptic cores on neuromorphic substrates" was invented by Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, Calif.), Pallab Datta (San Jose, Calif.), Myron D. Flickner (San Jose, Calif.) and Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neurosynaptic core placement is provided. In various embodiments, a description of a neural network is read. The neural network comprises a plurality of nodes. For each one of the plurality of nodes, a graph is generated corresponding to the nodes incident on that ...