ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,548, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to University of Maryland (College Park, Md.).
"Variable sensitivity node" was invented by Alessandro Restelli (Greenbelt, Md.), Daniel P. Lathrop (University Park, Md.) and Heidi Komkov (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable sensitivity node for a neural network that can be implemented as an information processing device such as an ASIC, and can be adjusted simply by applying immediate weights or parameters that change and/or amplify or de-amplify the output of the nodes. The information processing device has one or more nodes each with an input setting channel, a logic el...