ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,557, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NOTA INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Effective network compression using simulation-guided iterative pruning" was invented by Dae-Woong Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Jaehun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Young Seok Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Myungsu Chae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The effective network compression using simulation-guided iterative pruning according to various embodiments, can be configured so that, by means of an electronic device, a first neural network is pruned on the basis of a threshold value, a second neural network is generated, a gradient for each...