US Patent Issued on Sept. 8 for "Event-driven spiking convolutional neural network" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,012, issued on Sept. 8.

"Event-driven spiking convolutional neural network" was invented by Ole Juri Richter (Haunetal, Germany), Ning Qiao (Glattpark, Switzerland), Qian Liu (Otelfingen, Switzerland) and Sadique Ul Ameen Sheik (Schlieren, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network has a plurality of layers. Each layer includes a kernel module configured to store and to process in an event-driven fashion kernel values of at least one convolution kernel; a neuron module configured to store and to process in an event-driven fashion neuron states of neurons of the network; and a memory mapper configured to determine neu...