ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,394, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Degradation-aware training scheme for reliable memristor deep learning accelerator design" was invented by Dharanidhar Dang (San Diego), Debashis Sahoo (San Diego), Bill Lin (Encinitas, Calif.), Rabi Mahapatra (College Station, Texas), Aurosmita Khansama (College Station, Texas) and Sudharsan Govardan (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and computer program product for degradation-aware training of neural networks are provided. A degradation of degraded memory cells of a memory array is detect...