US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 25 for "Hierarchical parallelism in a network of distributed neural network cores" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,861, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hierarchical parallelism in a network of distributed neural network cores" was invented by John V. Arthur (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, Calif.), Myron D. Flickner (San Jose, Calif.), Pallab Datta (San Jose, Calif.), Hartmut Penner (San Jose, Calif.), Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas), Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.), Steven K. Esser (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Taba (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jennifer Klamo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Networks of distributed n...