US Patent Issued to Intel on June 23 for "Analog hardware implementation of activation functions" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,415, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Analog hardware implementation of activation functions" was invented by Hechen Wang (Portland, Ore.), Niranjan Mylarappa Gowda (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Andrey Belogolovy (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog neural network including a hardware activation function is provided. A layer of the analog neural network includes a sequence of processing elements that receives analog signals, perform MAC operations on the analog signals, and generates analog outputs. The analog outputs are provided to an analog circuitry that can apply an activation f...