US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on May 27 for "Energy efficient hierarchical SNN architecture for classification and segmentation of high-resolution images" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,222, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Energy efficient hierarchical SNN architecture for classification and segmentation of high-resolution images" was invented by Chetan Sudhakar Kadway (Nagpur, India), Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India) and Sounak Dey (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of art techniques rely of FPGA based approaches when power efficiency is of concern. However, compared to SNN on Neuromorphic hardware, ANN on FPGA requires higher power and longer design cycles to deploy neural network on hardware accelerators. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide ...