US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Insertion of activation functions into decomposed layer of network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,463, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Insertion of activation functions into decomposed layer of network" was invented by Steven L. Teig (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Eric A. Sather (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for training parameters of a network. The method receives an MT network having multiple layers of computation nodes that use first sets of weight values. Each computation node of a first layer computes an output value by computing an intermediate value based on a set of input values and a set of weight values and computing a node output va...