ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,871, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Incremental learning system with selective weight updates" was invented by Donghyuk Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Leesup Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jaekang Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Seungkyu Choi (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning method of an incremental learning model includes setting a searching range of mask weights based on either one or both of a distribution of mask weights of a binary mask corresponding to a filter of a p...