US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Sept. 16 for "Efficient second order pruning of computer-implemented neural networks" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,387, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Efficient second order pruning of computer-implemented neural networks" was invented by Manuel Nonnenmacher (Holzgerlingen, Germany), David Reeb (Renningen, Germany) and Thomas Pfeil (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a simplified computer-implemented neural network. The method includes: receiving a predefined neural network, which includes a plurality of neural network structures and is described by weights, each neural network structure being assigned a pruning vector which describes a change in weights as a...