US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on May 20 for "Method and system for optimized spike encoding for spiking neural networks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,360, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for optimized spike encoding for spiking neural networks" was invented by Dighanchal Banerjee (Kolkata, India), Sounak Dey (Kolkata, India), Arijit Mukherjee (Kolkata, India) and Arun George (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally relates optimized spike encoding for spiking neural networks (SNNs). The SNN processes data in spike train format, whereas the real world measurements/input signals are in analog (continuous or discrete) signal format; therefore, it is necessary to convert the input si...