US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Storage and processing of intermediate features in neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,981, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Storage and processing of intermediate features in neural networks" was invented by Shaomin Xiong (Fremont, Calif.), Toshiki Hirano (San Jose, Calif.), Ramy Ayad (San Jose, Calif.) and Damien Kah (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide for the use and storage of intermediate layer data within a neural network processing system. A first neural network, such as an object detection neural network may receive and process raw video image data to generate output utilized for metadata creatio...