ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,313, issued on May 13, was assigned to Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Deep learning neural network classifier using non-volatile memory array" was invented by Farnood Merrikh Bayat (Goleta, Calif.), Xinjie Guo (Goleta, Calif.), Dmitri Strukov (Goleta, Calif.), Nhan Do (Saratoga, Calif.), Hieu Van Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Vipin Tiwari (Dublin, Calif.) and Mark Reiten (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial neural network device that utilizes one or more non-volatile memory arrays as the synapses. The synapses are configured to r...