ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,733, issued on May 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to train a neural network" was invented by Anbang Yao (Beijing), Dawei Sun (Beijing), Aojun Zhou (Beijing), Hao Zhao (Beijing) and Yurong Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to train a neural network. An example apparatus includes an architecture evaluator to determine an architecture type of a neural network, a knowledge branch implementor to select a quantity of knowledge branches based on the architecture type, and a knowled...