ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,017, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Conic programming based on neural network with spiking neuromorphic architecture" was invented by Ashish Rao Mangalore (Munich), Gabriel Andres Fonseca Guerra (Munich), Sumedh Risbud (Berkeley, Calif.), Philipp Stratmann (Bonn, Germany) and Andreas Wild (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network, which can solve conic optimization problems may include a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer includes first neurons encoding constraint coefficients of the conic optimization problem. The second layer includes second ...