US Patent Issued to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Method and system for training a neural network" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,158, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal).

"Method and system for training a neural network" was invented by Warren J. Gross (Cote-St-Luc, Canada), Amir Ardakani (Montreal) and Arash Ardakani (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer-implemented method of training a neural network, the neural network comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes arranged in a plurality of layers and having a plurality of weights associated therewith. The method comprises obtaining, at a computing device, a training dataset from a database, perf...