US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) on Oct. 7 for "System and method for modifying integer and fractional portion sizes of a parameter of a neural network" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,180, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"System and method for modifying integer and fractional portion sizes of a parameter of a neural network" was invented by Pierre Demaj (Nice, France) and Laurent Folliot (Gourdon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes reducing a size of at least one initial parameter of each layer of an initial multilayer neural network to obtain for each layer a set of new parameters defining a new neural network, wherein each new parameter of the set of new parameters has its data represented in two portions ...