ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,390, issued on May 6, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Techniques for parameter set and header design for compressed neural network representation" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wei Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wei Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for encoding and decoding neural network data is provided. A method includes: obtaining an independent neural network with a topology; encoding the independent neural network with the topology such as to obtain a neural network represe...