US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Artificial intelligence hardware with synaptic reuse" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,796, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence hardware with synaptic reuse" was invented by Subhrajit Roy (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synaptic reuse allows for a plurality of artificial neurons to be associated with corresponding pluralities of artificial synapses and variable gain amplifiers, to thereby use less space and fewer components to implement and less power to operate than neurons having dedicated paths for each input source. To reduce the likelihood of signal collision, and allow for the independent control and interpretation of...