US Patent Issued to DeepMind Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Progressive neural networks" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,145, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DeepMind Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Progressive neural networks" was invented by Neil Charles Rabinowitz (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Guillaume Desjardins (London), Andrei-Alexandru Rusu (London), Koray Kavukcuoglu (London), Raia Thais Hadsell (London), Razvan Pascanu (Letchworth Garden City, Great Britain), James Kirkpatrick (London) and Hubert Josef Soyer (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing a sequence of machine learning tasks. One system includes a sequence of deep neural networks (DNNs), including: a first DNN corresponding to a first machine learnin...