US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Counter based resistive processing unit for programmable and reconfigurable artificial-neural-networks" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,568, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Counter based resistive processing unit for programmable and reconfigurable artificial-neural-networks" was invented by Siyuranga Koswatta (Carmel, N.Y.), Yulong Li (Westchester, N.Y.) and Paul M. Solomon (Westchester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technical solutions are described for storing weight in a crosspoint device of a resistive processing unit (RPU) array. An example system includes a crosspoint array, wherein each array node represents a connection between neurons of the neural network, and wherein each node stores a weig...