ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,673, issued on July 29, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Computer-implemented data processing method, micro-controller system and computer program product for applying pooling with respect to an output buffer in a neural network" was invented by Emanuele Plebani (Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method applies a pooling operator to an input array of data, the pooling operator having an absorbing element value and a set of pooling parameters. A size of an output buffer is computer as a function of the set of pooling parameters. The elements of...