ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,528, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Neural network method and apparatus" was invented by Junhaeng Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyunsun Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Joonho Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network method and apparatus are provided. A processor implemented neural network includes calculating respective individual gradient values for updating a weight of a neural network, calculating a residual gradient value based on an accumulated gradient value obtained by accumulating the individual gradient values and a bit digit rep...