ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,687, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Boston).

"Machine learning model training using an analog processor" was invented by Darius Bunandar (Boston), Ludmila Levkova (Chevy Chase, Md.), Nicholas Dronen (Newton, Mass.), Lakshmi Nair (Somerville, Mass.), David Widemann (Danville, Calif.), David Walter (Boston), Martin B. Z. Forsythe (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Tomo Lazovich (Cambridge, Mass.), Ayon Basumallik (Framingham, Mass.) and Nicholas C. Harris (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques of training a machine learning model and performing inference using an analog processor. Some embodim...