US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Oct. 21 for "Distributed processing computer and distributed deep learning system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,481, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed processing computer and distributed deep learning system" was invented by Kenji Tanaka (Tokyo), Yuki Arikawa (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Ito (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Terada (Tokyo) and Takeshi Sakamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is a computer including a plurality of accelerators, a computer for distributed processing includes a plurality of accelerators to each of which a part of a neural network is assigned and each of which is configured to derive a learning result based on input data and update each parameter value included ...