US Patent Issued to Preferred Networks on Nov. 25 for "Processing system and processing method for neural network" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,445, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Preferred Networks Inc. (Tokyo).

"Processing system and processing method for neural network" was invented by Tatsuya Kato (Tokyo) and Ken Namura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes a first chip including one or more first processors, and a second chip including one or more second processors. For a weight of a neural network to be updated, the one or more second processors execute a backward operation of the neural network and calculate a gradient of the weight, the calculated gradient is transferred to the one or more first processors, and the one or more first p...