ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,674, issued on July 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics France (Montrouge, France).
"Coding of an event in an analog data flow with a first event detection spike and a second delayed spike" was invented by Valerian Cincon (Villard Bonnot, France) and Philippe Galy (Le Touvet, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating, by a first spiking neuron, an event detection signal indicating a time of detection of an event in a data flow. The event detection signal is transmitted from the first spiking neuron to a second spiking neuron. The second spiking neuron generates a spike delayed, with respect to the time of ...