ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,109, issued on May 12, was assigned to Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co. LTD (Hangzhou, China).

"Event-driven accelerator supporting inhibitory spiking neural network" was invented by Rui Han (Hangzhou, China), Donglian Qi (Hangzhou, China), Yunfeng Yan (Hangzhou, China), Chi Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Yiming Zheng (Hangzhou, China), Wang Luo (Hangzhou, China), Ping Qian (Hangzhou, China), Yong Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Zheren Dai (Hangzhou, China), Jun Chen (Hangzhou, China), Chao Wang (Hangzhou, China), Lei Gong (Hangzhou, China) and Huarong Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...