ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,134, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Spiking neuron circuits and methods" was invented by Alaa Beidas (Zahr el-Kanis, Israel), Elan Banin (Raanana, Israel), Assaf Ben-Bassat (Haifa, Israel), Ofir Degani (Haifa, Israel) and Ashoke Ravi (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spiking neuron circuits and methods are provided in this disclosure. A spiking neuron may include a triggerable oscillator configured to generate an oscillator signal. The spiking neuron may further include a circuit configured to obtain an integration value based on received input spike signals. The spiking neuron may f...