ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,348, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Personalized neural network pruning" was invented by Simyung Chang (Suwon, South Korea), Jangho Kim (Siheung, South Korea), Hyunsin Park (Gwangmyeong, South Korea), Juntae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jaewon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyu Woong Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a personalized model includes receiving one or more personal data samples from a user. A prototype of a personal identity is generated based on the personal data samples. The prototype of the personal identity is trained to reflect personal char...