US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Spatially preserving flattening in deep learning neural networks" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,296, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Spatially preserving flattening in deep learning neural networks" was invented by Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (Cupertino, Calif.), Neha Srivathsa (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Raziuddin Mustafa Mahmood (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for spatially preserving flattening in deep learning neural networks are provided. In one aspect, a spatially preserving flattening module includes: a predictor for generating image feature maps from at least one convolutional layer of a feature extraction phase of a deep learning neural net...