US Patent Issued to Sony on Nov. 4 for "Performing distributed processing using layers of a neural network divided between a first device and a second device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,160, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sony Corp. (Tokyo).

"Performing distributed processing using layers of a neural network divided between a first device and a second device" was invented by Ryo Takahashi (Tokyo) and Yukio Oobuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method according to the present disclosure includes the steps of: evaluating, by a computer, a neural network having a structure held in a divided manner by a first device and a second device based on information on transfer of information between the first device and the second device in the neural network; and determining, by the...