US Patent Issued to Arm on June 30 for "Neural network system and training method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,395, issued on June 30, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Neural network system and training method" was invented by Igor Fedorov (Ashland, Mass.) and Paul Nicholas Whatmough (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural network systems and methods are provided. One method for processing a neural network includes, for at least one neural network layer that includes a plurality of weights, applying an offset function to each of a plurality of weight values in the plurality of weights to generate an offset weight value, and quantizing the offset weight values to form quantized offset weight values. The plu...