ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,086, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network optimization mechanism" was invented by Narayan Srinivasa (Portland, Ore.), Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.), Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries (Portland, Ore.), Ben J. Ashbaugh (Folsom, Calif.), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Feng Chen (Shanghai), Barath Lakshmanan (Chandler, Ariz.), Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (Chandler, Ariz.), Liwei Ma (Beijing), Linda L. Hurd (Cool, Calif.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), John C. Weast (Portland, Ore.), Sara S. Baghsorkhi (San Jose, Calif.), Justin E. Gottschlich (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chandrasekaran Sakthivel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Farshad A...