US Patent Issued to DENSO TEN on June 30 for "Machine learning method and pruning method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,397, issued on June 30, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Machine learning method and pruning method" was invented by Ryusuke Seki (Kobe, Japan), Yasutaka Okada (Kobe, Japan) and Yuki Katayama (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of creating a learning model using a controller configured to perform pruning on a neural network, the pruning includes a first pruning process in which a pruning process is performed in units of channels of convolutional layers and a second pruning process in which a pruning process is performed in units of weight parameters."

The patent was filed on Nov. 23, 2022, under App...