US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 14 for "Compressed weight distribution in networks of neural processors" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,830, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Compressed weight distribution in networks of neural processors" was invented by Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, Calif.), Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, Calif.), John V. Arthur (Mountain View, Calif.), Pallab Datta (San Jose, Calif.), Steve Esser (San Jose, Calif.), Myron D. Flickner (San Jose, Calif.), Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural inference chip includes a global weight memory; a neural core; and a network connecting the global weight memory to the at least one...