US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus for classifying sounds based on neural code in spiking neural network and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,994, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for classifying sounds based on neural code in spiking neural network and method thereof" was invented by Jee hyun Kwag (Seoul, South Korea) and Ki sung Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of classifying sounds based on a neural code in a spiking neural network includes: receiving sounds to be classified and digitally converting the received sounds into sound data; preprocessing the sound data using a multiple neural code-based encoding method including rate code encoding and synchron...