US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Feb. 18 for "Method and system for training an artificial neural network utilizing physics based knowledge" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,934, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Method and system for training an artificial neural network utilizing physics based knowledge" was invented by James Derek Tucker (Edgewood, N.M.) and Matthew Thomas Martinez (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training an artificial neural network including classifiers for material characterization. The method includes obtaining functional data having phase and amplitude, registering functional data by phase-amplitude separation and statistical analysis on the phase-amplitude separated da...