US Patent Issued to SOLITON SYSTEMS on April 22 for "Nonlinear function operation apparatus, sigmoid function operation apparatus, hyperbolic tangent function operation apparatus, softmax function operation apparatus, and nonlinear function operation methods" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,810, issued on April 22, was assigned to SOLITON SYSTEMS K.K. (Tokyo).

"Nonlinear function operation apparatus, sigmoid function operation apparatus, hyperbolic tangent function operation apparatus, softmax function operation apparatus, and nonlinear function operation methods" was invented by Teruhiko Hayashi (Tokyo), Kenich Hashimoto (Tokyo), Kunihiro Kajihara (Tokyo) and Kazuhisa Takamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention includes: a nonlinear behavior unit configured to autonomously change an internal physical quantity according to a predetermined nonlinear characteristic; an input converting...