ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,846, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Partitionable neural network for solid state drives" was invented by Lorenzo Zuolo (Lusia, Italy) and Rino Micheloni (Turate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes storing configuration files of a Multi-Core Neural Network Inference (MCNNI) model having Independent Categorized-Core-Portions (ICCP). Each ICCP corresponds to one of a plurality of categories for each parameter. Some weighting values on each row of the weighting matrix of the MCNNI model have a nonzero value and some weighting values on each row have a value of zero. Th...