ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,401, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Noise mitigation in electronic devices including neural network circuits" was invented by John G Dorsey (San Francisco), Bryan R Hinch (Campbell, Calif.), Jason P Jane (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Karthic A Palaniappan (Cupertino, Calif.), Mark I Mansi (Cupertino, Calif.), Ronit Banerjee (Mountain View, Calif.) and Timothy J Detwiler (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to noise mitigation for processing circuitry of an electronic device having a neural network circuit. A neural network circuit may include multiple neural network layers ...