US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Nov. 4 for "Coupled networks for physics-based machine learning" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,202, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Coupled networks for physics-based machine learning" was invented by Samuel Dillavou (Philadelphia), Douglas Durian (Swarthmore, Pa.), Andrea J. Liu (Philadelphia), Menachem Stern (Philadelphia) and Marc Z. Miskin (Media, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for physics-based learning and computation including two networks, each having a plurality of identical edges and feedback circuitry to compare the voltage drop at a given edge of the first network with the voltage drop at the corresponding edge of the second network. In b...