US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Debugging neural network execution through operation backtracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,872, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Debugging neural network execution through operation backtracking" was invented by Jeffrey T. Huynh (San Jose, Calif.), Ron Diamant (Santa Clara, Calif.), Samuel Jacob (Fremont, Calif.), Richard John Heaton (San Jose, Calif.) and Randy Renfu Huang (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for debugging a neural network execution through operation backtracking. Operations of a neural network may be executed using an array of processing elements based on an input feature map to generate an output value of an output feature map....