ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,851, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Baidu USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for improving the accuracy of a neural network" was invented by Haofeng Kou (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Huimeng Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented herein facilitate improvement of a deployed neural network model's accuracy without significantly affecting its operation. In one or more embodiments, online training of the deployed model may be performed using a second neural network model that has higher accuracy than the deployed neural network model. In ...