ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,903, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Hardware-aware neural network design" was invented by Alexey Aleksandrovich Letunovskiy (Moscow), Vladimir Sergeevich Polovnikov (Moscow), Vladimir Petrovich Korviakov (Moscow), Ivan Leonidovich Mazurenko (Moscow) and Yepan Xiong (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for searching for one or more neural network (NN) architectures is provided. The method determines a search space comprising a plurality of architectures including one or more blocks, wherein a block of the one or more blocks is formed by one or more NN layers. The d...