US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, University of Zurich on April 22 for "Method and apparatus with neural network layer contraction" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,840, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and University of Zurich (Zurich).

"Method and apparatus with neural network layer contraction" was invented by Shih-Chii Liu (Zurich), Bodo Rueckauer (Zurich) and Tobi Delbruck (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented neural network method includes: determining a reference sample among sequential input samples to be processed by a neural network, the neural network comprising an input layer, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer; performing an inference process of obtaining an output activation of the output la...