US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Dec. 30 for "Biologically inspired sleep algorithm for artificial neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,524, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Biologically inspired sleep algorithm for artificial neural networks" was invented by Maksim Bazhenov (San Diego), Giri Prashanth Krishnan (San Diego) and Timothy Tadros (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) based on the principles of biological sleep are disclosed. Namely, the systems and methods can be configured to apply a sleep-like phase to ANNs which enables training to be generalized, performance to be improved, and catastrophic forgetting for sequentia...