US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives on March 3 for "Multiplier by multiplexed offsets and addition, related electronic calculator for the implementation of a neural network and learning method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,952, issued on March 3, was assigned to Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (Paris).

"Multiplier by multiplexed offsets and addition, related electronic calculator for the implementation of a neural network and learning method" was invented by Vincent Lorrain (Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France), Olivier Bichler (Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France), David Briand (Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France) and Johannes Christian Thiele (Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shift-and-add multiplier able to perform multiplication operations by multiplicative values, configured to receive as input a binary valu...